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Georgia O'Keeffe
Patio with Cloud, 1956
Courtesy of Milwaukee Art Museum.
Image: okeeffe_CR1291_patio-with-cloud_862532.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Patio with Cloud, 1956
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
CR No. 1291
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward R. Wehr M1957.10
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward R. Wehr M1957.10
CR No. 1291

CR No. 1291

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Patio with Cloud

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, Whitney Archive in 1969.

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscribed in artist's handwriting on stretcher bar: 1/16/53 1/2 zinc 1/2 lead [according to Barbara Buhler Lynes, this refers to the recipe O'Keeffe used for the ground layer]; Label: American Painting of the Last 25 Years / Georgia O'Keeffe / Patio With Cloud / oil, 1956 / Lent by the Milwaukee Art center; Los Angeles County Museum / Exposition Park / Los Angeles 7 / California; The Downtown Gallery / 32 E. 51st St. / New York; stamp: Dogano di Napoli (Source: MAM, 2025)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

[1] By October 9, 1956, (The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York, USA); [2] December 14, 1957, purchased by Mrs. Edward R. (Ethel E.) Wehr [1885–1961] (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA); [3] December 19, 1957, gift to Milwaukee Art Center (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
NOTES:
[1] Downtown Gallery, 31st Annual Exhibition (New York: The Downtown Gallery, 1956), cat. 2.
[2] Invoice addressed to Mrs. Edward R. Wehr in MAM object file, with canceled check dated February 14, 1959. MAM catalogue card also states that John Marin Jr., son of artist John Marin, but according to corresponce between registrar and catalogue raisonne researcher Barbara Buhler Lynes in January/February 1994, this is incorrect; Lynes found no records to indicate that Wehr was not the first owner, and registrar thinks that this is a mix-up with the Marin watercolor that Wehr also gave to the museum (M1957.19). See also Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 2 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 812, cat. 1291.
[3] MAM catalogue card. See also Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 2 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 812, cat. 1291.
(Source: MAM, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 10/29/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025

Source System ID

10145

Other IDs

1291, Catalogue Raisonné