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Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 1280
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Gift of the William H. Lane Foundation
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An adobe wall, seen from a sharp angle, extends across the canvas. A square black door interrupts the smooth, light brown surface of the wall. A sliver of brown ground with pale steppingstones is visible below, while a small triangle of white sky appears overhead.
CR No. 1280
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Patio with Black Door
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold Downtown Gallery 1955." Stretcher inscriptions indicate preparation of support. Titled Patio with Black Door by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher:
- "rabbit glue" (graphite)
- "30 x 40 [and drawing of rectangle]" (unidentified hand, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
2024–2025
San Diego Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Albuquerque Museum (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Musee Des Beaux-Arts Montreal (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
1958–1959
Worcester Art Museum (as Lane Foundation American Painting Since The Armory Show)
Currier Museum of Art (as Lane Foundation American Painting Since The Armory Show)
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (as Lane Foundation American Painting Since The Armory Show)
1959
Whitney Museum of American Art (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
The Israel Museum (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
Museum of Modern Art (Israel) (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
April 21, 1955, sold by Downtown Gallery, New York (stock no. 216) to the William H. Lane Foundation, Leominster, MA [see note 1]; 1990, gift of the William H. Lane Foundation to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 18, 1990)
NOTES:
[1] Archives of American Art, Downtown Gallery Records, Series 4, Business Records: Sales Slips (1 of 2), 1955: Reel 5628 (Box 72), Frame 170.
(Source: MFA Boston, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Oct 06 2025
Source System ID
10162
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