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Georgia O'Keeffe
In the Patio VIII, 1950
Georgia O'Keeffe
In the Patio VIII, 1950
Oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.8

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
View from interior of Abiquiu patio with upper 2/3 of painting devoted to a vast blue sky dotted with a pattern of white clouds. The adobe wall in the lower center has one small turquoise window, and a strong angular shadow crosses the patio from left to right, creating one dark and one light triangle within the rectangle of the building's space.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1211

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible

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

1950 New York (An American Place), no. 28
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O’Keeffe) The Poetry of Things
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Frames of Preference
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) In the American Grain
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Color and Conservation
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
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
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