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Pastel on wood pulp laminate board, 21 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
CR No. 958
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Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.250.2
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A large, white spiral shell sits at the center of the composition. Behind the shell is a landscape featuring a deep red hill with pink and yellow strips of sky above.
CR No. 958
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
White Shell with Red
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. ... No signature. White Shell with background of red hills. Title given by Rosalind Irvine. Note: O'Keeffe think done ab. 1938." Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1938. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date c. 1938. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Lynes publication dates this as ca. 1938, Art Institute of Chicago dates it as 1938 (without the circa date.) (Source: Information provided for Access O'Keeffe from the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025)
Technique
Pastel
Materials
Pastel on wood pulp laminate board
Extended Medium Description
Pastel on very thick, beige, slightly textured wove paper, affixed to ground wood board
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
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)
Bequeathed by the artist to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987. (Source: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025)
© Art Institute of Chicago
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Dec 10 2025
Source System ID
8913
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