Wall with Green Door

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.

Wall with Green Door

O'Keeffe, Georgia

1953

Accession Number

2015.19.155

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.2 × 121.6 cm (30 × 47 7/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Woodward Foundation)