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Oil on canvas, 18 x 30 inches
CR No. 1160
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Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.204
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The painting conveys a simplified rendering of a patio. A light brown stripe runs along the lower portion of the scene. The building is painted in a slightly darker brown, while a square opening in the center of the building is an even deeper shade of brown. A strip of blue sky parallels the upper edge of the canvas.
CR No. 1160
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
In the Patio III
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, Whitney Archive in 1969.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive in 1969 indicates, "Seen in N.Y. warehouse, O'Keeffe, 3/26/70. Notes & sketch." "I wish you would send me that In the Patio III that you had color plate made from. I would like to repaint it" (O'Keeffe to Edith Halpert, 17 February 1955, Archive of American Art). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible Backing:
- "13 In the Patio III. 1948" ['1948' typed in] (Label substitute: title cut from An American Place exhibition checklist)
- "Return to" (Doris Bry, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2022–2023
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2026–2027
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
2016–2017
Heide Museum of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Art Gallery of New South Wales (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Estate of the artist, 1986
Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1993
Gift to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2006
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/19/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
1037
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