Shell No. 2, 1928
Shell No. 2, 1928
Oil on board, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.37
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Small white exterior of a clamshell with green lines of seaweed running over it, nestled in a bed of grey and feathery red kelp.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
624
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Verso:1. "G. O'Keeffe 1928" (white paint)
2. "#5 / #19" (unidentified hand, graphite)
Backing:
1. "Shell No. 2" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphite)
3. "1928" (AS, black crayon)
4. "Georgia O'Keeffe / 1928" (AS graphite)
Provenance
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Mrs. Rudolph Zinsser, Great Neck, N.Y., 1955 Desended in family Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 6782, lot no. 73, 29 November 1995 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1995 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996Exhibition History
1929 New York (Intimate Gallery), as Shell No. II1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Frames of Preference
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) In the American Grain
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and the Camera)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Burnett Foundation Gift
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