- Titles When the Sky made an escape ladder for the fast Water lilies (Proper)
- Artist Merritt Johnson, American, born 1977
- Medium acrylic gouache, acrylic, graphite and pastel pigment on 156 lb cotton cold pressed archival watercolor paper
- Dimensions sheet: 26 × 96 in. (66 × 243.8 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with partial funds provided by the Estate of Clyde W. Oyster, 2020.64, image © Merritt Johnson
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Provenance BMA comission purchased directly from artist