Doorway in Ochre

A hard-edge abstract painting: a large flat ochre field with a tall narrow off-white rectangular opening slightly left of center, crisp edges, acrylic on canvas. — Doorway in Ochre

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Title: Doorway in Ochre
Subject: Geometric abstraction; Doors
Description: The only Ekwall with a way in. The doorway is the canvas left bare; the ochre around it took him eleven coats.
Creator: Tomas Ekwall
Date: 1969
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Type: Painting
Identifier: 1970.5
Extent: 152.4 × 101.6 cm (60 × 40 in.)
Provenance: Museum purchase, 1970
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Tomas Ekwall 1931–1998

Doorway in Ochre, 1969

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Extent: 152.4 × 101.6 cm (60 × 40 in.)

Provenance: Museum purchase, 1970

Identifier: 1970.5

The only Ekwall with a way in. The doorway is the canvas left bare; the ochre around it took him eleven coats.

Rights & reuse

Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

Cite this

Tomas Ekwall. “Doorway in Ochre.” 1969. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://01hy7jb6pdd1k4jjjn56z4587d.app-platform-1.refbytes.com/items/show/214 (accessed October 27, 2026).

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