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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