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Georgia O'Keeffe
Closed Clam Shell, 1926
Georgia O'Keeffe
Closed Clam Shell, 1926
Oil on canvas, 20 x 9 inches
Dallas Museum of Art
Private collection, Dallas, Texas, 1967

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

539

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Closed Clam Shell" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) 3. AAP2 4. "New York – City" (AIC label, black ink) 5. IG 6. AAP9

Provenance

(Doris Bry, New York, NY)

Exhibition History

1927 New York (Intimate Gallery), among nos. 1-6, as The Sea-Shell; 1943 Chicago, no. 20; 1946 New York (MOMA – Retro), no. 17; 1948 New York (MOMA – Alfred Stieglitz), no. 75; 1966 Albuquerque; 1966 Fort Worth; 1970 New York (Whitney), no. 41; 1975 San Antonio; 1985 Amarillo, no. 11; 1987 Washington, no. 52; 1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe)
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Source System ID

8611