Black Doorway I

© Elizabeth Osborne. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction o…
© Elizabeth Osborne
Black Doorway I
© Elizabeth Osborne. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Black Doorway I

Date1966
Artist (American painter, born 1936)
MediumOil on canvas with objects
Dimensions40 × 49 3/4 in. (101.6 × 126.4 cm)
frame: 41 3/8 × 51 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (105.1 × 130.8 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund and partial gift from Locks Gallery, 2016
Object number2016-41
On View
On view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextExhibited as Woman in Doorway in early 1966, Black Doorway I is the first of three paintings Osborne executed that year that features a figure at the edge of a doorframe. The additions of found objects—window screening and a brass doorknob—both approximate architectural space and create physical barriers for the figure materializing from the background.

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