Wall with Green Door

1953

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painter, American, 1887 - 1986

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On View

East Building Ground Level, Gallery 106-C

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Doris Bry [1920-2014], New York.[1] (Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York). Woodward Foundation, Washington, by 1966;[2] gift 1977 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The first two owners are given in Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgie O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., New Haven and London, 1999: 2:789, no. 1265. In a letter of 8 August 1953, the artist wrote to Edith Halpert that one of the four paintings she had sent that day to the Downtown Gallery was "Wall with Green Door/53" (Downtown Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, cited in Lynes 1999). The painting was lent by Miss O'Keeffe through the Downtown Gallery to a 1960 exhibition of her work at the Worcester Art Museum, and there is a Downtown Gallery label on the reverse, on which the painting is given number 166.
[2] The 1966 date is according to Lynes 1999, 2:789, no. 1265.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • 61st Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, 21 October - 5 December 1954, no. 110.

  • One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 24 January - 28 February 1954, no. 71.

1955

  • O'Keeffe Exhibition: New Paintings, Downtown Gallery, New York, 29 March - 23 April 1955, no. 7.

1959

  • 48th Annual Exhibition: Paintings by Some Contemporary American Women, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1-22 March 1959.

1960

  • Georgie O'Keeffe: Forty Years of Her Work, Worcester Art Museum, 4 October - 4 December 1960, no. 32, repro.

1978

  • The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 31 January - 31 August 1978, unpublished checklist.

1982

  • Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983.

1993

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern, Hayward Gallery, London; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Yokohama Museum of Art, Tokyo, 8 April 1993 - 16 January 1994, no. 79, repro.

1998

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist in Focus, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 15 November 1998 - 10 January 1999, no. 12, repro.

  • O'Keeffe and Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 27 January - 5 April 1998, no. 31, repro.

2007

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007-2008, no. 59, repro.

2008

  • Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, 2008, no. 60, repro.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

2016

  • Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue.

  • Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, 2016, pl. 154.

2019

  • Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2019, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1988

  • Messinger, Lisa Mintz. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York and London, 1988: 56.

1989

  • Bry, Doris, and Nicholas Callaway, eds. Georgia O'Keeffe in the West. New York, 1989: 78.

1994

  • Costantino, Maria. Georgia O'Keeffe. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1994: 143.

1999

  • Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1999: 2:789, no. 1265, color repro.

Inscriptions

reverse: Patio Gree [scratched out] / Wall with Green Door / Georgia O'Keeffe / ABIQUI / N.M.

Wikidata ID

Q46636054

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