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Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 653
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Richard D. Brixey Bequest
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A window flanked by black shutters and a gray pediment opens onto a bright white door. The pediment contains decorative, swirling shapes, and the walls surrounding the window are painted gray.
CR No. 653
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Farmhouse Window and Door
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Farm House Window & Door
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Portrait of The Farm House, Lake George
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Farmhouse Window and Door, Lake George
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Lake George Window
O'Keeffe and Texas, 1998, McNay Art Museum (San Antonio)
General Remarks
Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted 1929." Received in exchange in 1945 for Red Hills with Sun, see cat. no. 608. Pictured in 1930 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 32. Reproduced and titled Portrait of a Farmhouse, Lake George in Modern American Painters (1930). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Verso: "G Okeeffe Oct 1929" (white paint). Backing: "Farm House Window & Door – 1927" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York", black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Signed and dated verso in white paint "Georgia O'Keeffe / Oct. 1929" (Source: MoMA, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
1968–1969
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (as The Art of the Real: USA, 1948–1968)
Kunsthaus Zürich (as The Art of the Real: USA, 1948–1968)
Tate Modern (as The Art of the Real: USA, 1948–1968)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1978
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
IBM Gallery of Science and Art (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
1998
2024–2025
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
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)
1943
1946
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
North Carolina Museum of Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
New Britain Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
1929 - April 26, 1945, Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiú, New Mexico.
April 26, 1945, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased and acquired from the artist through An American Place (Alfred Stieglitz) in exchange for 109.1943.(Source: MoMA, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025
Source System ID
8714
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