White Shell with Red

Prints and Drawings

1938

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

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Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: White Shell with Red
Origin: United States
Date: 1938
Medium: Pastel on wood pulp laminate board
Dimensions: 546 x 698 mm
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
Reference Number: 1987.250.5
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago

Judith A. Barter et al., “American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955,” (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 70.

New York, Am American Place, Oct. 1940, cat. 15.
New York, Downtown Gallery, “O’Keeffe,” Feb. 19-Mar. 8, 1952, cat. 17.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Georgia O’Keeffe: 1887-1986,” Nov. 1, 1987-Feb. 21, 1988, cat 88 (ill.); also the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5-June 19, 1988; the Dallas Museum of Art, July 31-Oct. 16, 1988; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 19, 1988-Feb. 5, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, “An American Conversation: Works on Paper from Two Collections,” Apr.-July 2005.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s,” Jan. 30-May 3, 2010, no cat.

Bequeathed by the artist to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.

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