Blue Openings in Red Space, No. 3 (Open Sun Series), Painting, dated 1971Blue Opening in Red Space, no. 3, original painting by Vance Hall Kirkland (1904 1981) from his Open Sun Series. For this group of 17 paintings, Kirkland purportedly set two rules for himself: First, that each sun had to be a different size; And second, that each sun had to be a different distance from the others. Kirkland also felt that each sun in his imaginary cosmos possessed a different temperature, therefore giving them different colors and