Black Doorway I
Date1966
Artist
Elizabeth Osborne
(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)
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 viewCollections
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. 
