Which New Mexico building did Georgia O'Keeffe paint repeatedly from her Abiquiú home?

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Georgia O'Keeffe repeatedly painted the patio door of her Abiquiú home.

The Patio Door is a recurring subject in O'Keeffe's paintings of her Abiquiú house. She depicted the dark door set into an adobe wall in several works, including paintings from the 1940s and 1950s. The simple architectural feature became a carefully observed arrangement of shape, shadow, and light.

O'Keeffe bought the Abiquiú property in 1945, although extensive restoration took years. She valued the privacy and the dramatic adobe architecture, and she described the door as something she had to paint because it was part of her daily surroundings and visual experience.

The subject is often confused with The White Place, the name O'Keeffe used for a pale cliff formation near Ghost Ranch. The Patio Door concerns her house at Abiquiú; The White Place concerns a natural landscape in northern New Mexico.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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