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Georgia O'Keeffe. In the Patio III, 1948. Oil on canvas, 18 x 30 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.204]
The painting conveys a simplified rendering of a patio. A light brown stripe runs along the lower portion of the scene. The building is painted in a slightly darker brown, while a square opening in the center of the building is an even deeper shade of brown. A strip of blue sky parallels the upper edge of the canvas.
Reflecting on her first impression of what would become her Abiquiú home and studio, O’Keeffe recalled: “When I first saw the Abiquiú house it was a ruin with an adobe wall around the garden broken in a couple of places by falling trees,” adding, “as I climbed and walked about in the ruin I found a patio with a very pretty well house and bucket to draw up water. It was a good-sized patio with a long wall with a door on one side.” This patio door would become the subject of more than 20 paintings and drawings. In the Patio III, a symmetrical composition of rectangles and stripes, is among the earliest, painted before the task of restoring the house was fully complete.
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