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Georgia O'Keeffe
Patio Door with Green Leaf, 1956
Georgia O'Keeffe
Patio Door with Green Leaf, 1956
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.14

Abstract architectural adobe wall in earth tones that dominates most of the canvas. There is a large door shape in black on the right, and a sliver of blue sky above. Floating mid- canvas is a small greenish-yellow leaf delicately suspended in the color of the adobe.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1292

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: "1/16/53/Lead 1/2 /Zinc 1/2" (graphite)
Backing: "Patio Door with Green Leaf / 1956 / oil / 36 x 30 /canvas" (OKR, black ink)

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1986 ^The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993 ^The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)

Exhibition History

1961 Cincinnati
1962 Ogunquit
1963 Colorado Springs
1993 London (Hayward), no. 81
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O’Keeffe) The Poetry of Things
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
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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Gift, © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum


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