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Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches
CR No. 1271
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Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 89.63
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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
1967
1968
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
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)
1957–1958
1959
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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 02 2025
Source System ID
9441
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by the Chrysler Museum of Art in 2025.
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
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