Wall with Green Door
1953
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 121.6 cm (30 × 47 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Woodward Foundation)
Accession Number
2015.19.155
Art Historical Context
Georgia O'Keeffe's *Wall with Green Door* (1953), an oil on canvas measuring 76.2 × 121.6 cm, captures the stark, sun-bleached beauty of New Mexico's adobe architecture. Painted during O'Keeffe's mature years after settling permanently in Abiquiu in 1949, the work simplifies a weathered wall pierced by a vivid green door into bold geometric forms and luminous color planes. This piece reflects her modernist Precisionist style, where everyday objects become abstracted icons of the American Southwest landscape. O'Keeffe's fascination with architectural elements like doors and walls stemmed from ...
About the Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) is one of the most significant and original figures in the history of American art, a painter whose career spanned more than seven decades and whose work transformed how American artists engaged with the natural world and with abstraction. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she received rigorous academic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art S...