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Georgia O'Keeffe
Door Through Window, 1956
Georgia O'Keeffe
Door Through Window, 1956
Oil on canvas, 30 x 14 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.249

In this abstract piece, the view of an exterior door and wall is fragmented by a window with several panes. The door is black, while the wall is rendered in several shades of brown. A fragmented sky fills the upper left corner of the work.
DETAILS

Catalogue Raisonné Number

1293

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher; inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible

Provenance

(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, New York, N.Y., 1968 (Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) The artist, 1969 Estate of the artist, 1985

Exhibition History

1956 New York (downtown - 31st Annual), no. 3;
1957 New York (Downtown - Spring)
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abiquiu Views: Patio
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Source System ID

1042