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Georgia O'Keeffe
My Last Door, 1952-1954, 1954
Georgia O'Keeffe
My Last Door, 1952-1954, 1954
Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 84 3/16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.29

Large canvas of mostly white with an abstracted reference to the black door from the adobe wall of her Abiquiu home. The door is represented by a large black rectangle in the center, with line of grey-blue squares suggesting the stepping stones along the path. Along the top and bottom edges of the canvas are lines of a darker blue grey, thin on top, thicker along the bottom.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1263

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: "templet" (stretcher key, black ink)

Provenance

Calvin Klein, New York, N.Y., 1983 (Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, N.Y.) The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1955 New York (Downtown--30th Annual), no. 4
1987 Washington, no. 111
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) Skunk Cabbage Series
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
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) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and the Camera
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abiquiu Views: Patio
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