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Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
CR No. 708
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An extreme closeup of the undulating, rippling interior of a white clamshell spans the entire canvas.
CR No. 708
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Inside Clam Shell
Source of title: backing inscription.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
From a Shell
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
From a Shell
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
From a Shell
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "No. 3, label: printed, The Intimate Gallery 1931. Painted 1930." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Sold by Downtown Gallery in 1951." Pictured in 1931 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 42. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Inside Clam Shell / 1930" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2007–2008
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1951; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1968; Private collection, New York, NY, 1968; (Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York, NY); Private collection, New York, NY, 1968; (Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/5/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8753
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