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Home > Art > In the Patio IX

In the Patio IX

Painted grey and black v-shape structure with a blue sky overhead.
Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

Date

1950

Medium

Oil on canvas mounted on panel

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 30 x W- 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2012.05.01

Copyright

© Juan Hamilton

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Abiquiu landscape New Mexico oil painting southwest
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Painted grey and black v-shape structure with a blue sky overhead.

About the Object

This painting is the culmination of the In the Patio series, based on the enclosed patio of O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu home. The most abstract painting of the series, O’Keeffe included the sky but removed the ground, tilting the perspective so we see a corner of the wall, which falls into shadow and is contrasted by the intense blue of the sky.

 

Additional Information

O’Keeffe moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949. Other works in this series include In the Patio II, 1948, in the New Mexico Museum of Art and In the Patio III, 1948 and In the Patio VIII, 1950, both in the Georgia O’Keefe Museum.

The Artist;
[Downtown Gallery, New York, NY];
Edith G. Halpert, New York, NY, 1953;
Estate of Edith G. Halpert, 1970;
[Sotheby Park Bernet, Inc., New York, March 15, 1973, lot 1082];
The Artist, 1973;
Estate of the Artist, 1986;
Private Collection, 1987-2012;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];

New York. An American Place. Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings 1946-1950. October-November 1950, cat. no. 29.

Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago. 61st American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture. October 21-December 5, 1954, cat. no. 111.

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. The Museum and Its Friends. March 5-April 12, 1959.

Washington D.C.. The Corcoran Gallery of Art. A Loan Exhibition from the Edith Gregor Halpert Collection. January 16-February 28, 1960, ill. np., cat. no. 60.

Washington D.C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection. September 28-November 11, 1962.

Santa Fe.  Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. July 19-1997-March 31, 1998.

Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. Opening Abstraction. June 14, 2013-June 29, 2014.

Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art.  From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Extended loan. January-April 2016.

Brooklyn. Brooklyn Museum. Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (March 3-July 23, 2017); Winston-Salem. Reynolda House Museum of American Art (August 18-November 19, 2017); Salem. The Peabody Essex Museum (December 16, 2017-April 1, 2018).

Corpus Christi. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

New York. The Jewish Museum. Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art. October 18, 2019-February 9, 2020.

Paris. Le Centre Pompidou. Georgia O’Keeffe (September 8-December 6, 2021); Basel. Fondation Beyeler (January 23-May 22, 2023).

Georgia O’Keeffe to Edith Gregor Halpert, September 8, 1952. Downtown Gallery. Artist Files, A-Z: O’Keeffe, Georgia, 1920-1950. Box 25, Reel 5550, Frame 1061. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

“Stock of Miss O’Keeffe, November 5, 1953. 157 In the Patio #9 1950 $4000.” The Downtown Gallery. Gallery Stock: Miscellaneous Stock Records, O’Keeffe, Georgia. Box 64, Reel 5609, Frame 764. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

“O’Keeffe Stock, February 12, 1954.” The Downtown Gallery. Gallery Stock: Miscellaneous Stock Records, O’Keeffe, Georgia. Box 64, Reel 5609, Frame 767. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Edith Gregor Halpert to Georgia O’Keeffe, October 18, 1954. Downtown Gallery. Artist Files, A-Z: O’Keeffe, Georgia, 1920-1950. Box 25, Reel 5550, Frames 1159-1160.  Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Georgia O’Keeffe to Edith Gregor Halpert, October 22, 1954. Downtown Gallery. Artist Files, A-Z: O’Keeffe, Georgia, 1920-1950. Box 25, Reel 5550, Frame 1161. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Edith Gregor Halpert to Georgia O’Keeffe, September 26, 1961. Downtown Gallery Papers, Artist Files, A-Z: O’Keeffe, Georgia, 1958-1961, Box 25, Reel 5551, Frame 304.  AAA, Smithsonian Institution.

Edith Gregor Halpert to Georgia O’Keeffe, September 29,  1962. Downtown Gallery Papers, Artist Files, A-Z: O’Keeffe, Georgia, 1962-1968, Box 25, Reel 5551, Frame 352.  AAA, Smithsonian Institution.

Edith Gregor Halpert Collection. Sotheby Park Bernet, New York. Highly Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture. March 15, 1973, lot 1082, ill.

O’Keeffe, Georgia. Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: Viking Press, 1976, plate 87.

De Looper, Willem. Georgia O’Keeffe. Washington DC: The Phillips Collection, 1985, p. 30, ill. p. 28, pl. 16.

Merrill, C.S. O’Keeffe: Days in a Life. Albuquerque, NM: La Alameda Press, 1995, np.

Udall, Sharyn. Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. n 28, pp. 169-170.

Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Volume Two.  New Haven: Yale University Press; Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu: The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1999, p. 755, ill. p. 755, cat. no. 1213.

Messinger, Lisa Mintz. Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001, p. 156, ill. p. 155, fig. 100.

Merrill, C.S. Weekends with O’Keeffe. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2010, p. 45.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 11, 20-21, 162-163, 241, 267, ill. p. 163.

Agee, William C. Modern Art in America: 1908-68. London: Phaidon, 2016, p. 264, ill. p. 265.

Uhlyarik, Georgiana. “The ‘Light One’: A Case Study,” in Georgia O’Keeffe, Tanya Barson, ed. London: Tate Publishing, 2016, pp. 221-223, ill. p. 222.

Smith, Roberta. “Georgia O’Keeffe, Stylist and Curator of Her Own Myth,” New York Times, March 2, 2017, ill.

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