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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Door with Red, 1954
Courtesy of Chrysler Museum of Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Door with Red, 1954
Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches
CR No. 1271
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 89.63
Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 89.63
CR No. 1271

A wide, rectangular strip of red and orange fills the frame, with two thin strips of yellow above and below. A black square sits at the center of the composition. Below the square, small orange rectangles run across the composition. The composition depicts an adobe wall with a black door at its center and a path of square tiles running below it.

CR No. 1271

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Door with Red

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

The Downtown Gallery, New York; private collection, New York, 1963; [The Downtown Gallery, New York]; Edith G. Halpert, New York, 1964; Estate of Edith G. Halpert, 1970; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, sale no. 3484, lot no. 43, March 15, 1973; [Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York]; Harry Spiro, New York, 1973; Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1975; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1976; Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1989.
(Source: The Chrysler Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 02 2025

Source System ID

9441

Other IDs

1271, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by the Chrysler Museum of Art in 2025.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Painting:

  • Rub on proud canvas thread. 01/27/2010
  • Old crackles, LL corner. 09/13/2010
  • Light area along bottom yellow strip. 05/20/2010
  • Dent on right edge. 01/28/2009
  • Crackles in UR corner. 09/13/2010
  • Faint scuffs/rubs along top yellow strip. 01/27/2010
  • Tiny vertical crackles UR of black box. 01/27/2010
  • Specks and fiber accretions top left yellow strip. 01/27/2010
  • Dark marks, LL edge. 05/10/2010