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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Patio Door, 1955
Courtesy of Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR1283_black-patio-door_857669.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Patio Door, 1955
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 1283
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 1283

A tan adobe wall, seen from an angle, stretches across the canvas. A rectangular black form interrupts the smooth expanse of the adobe. The black form denotes a door set within the wall. A small triangle of gray sky is visible on the upper left corner of the composition.

CR No. 1283

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Patio Door

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

General Remarks

Stretcher inscription indicates preparation of support. Titled Black Patio Door by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher:

  1. "Frame B" (cardboard stretcher, graphite)
  2. "1/16/53 / '/dead / 1/2glue OK" (graphite)
  3. "30 x 40 / [drawing of rectangle] / Box 36 / #1" (unidentified hand, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

10183

Other IDs

1283, Catalogue Raisonné