Red Hill and White Shell, 1938
Red Hill and White Shell, 1938
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 1/2 inches
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Gift of Isabel Wilson in memory of her mother, Alice Pratt Brown [1991] (91.2027)
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
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946
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Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "White Shell & Red Hills – New Mexico / 1938 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, AAP1, black ink) 2. AAP9 3. "Georgia O'Keeffe / White Shell and Red / Hills, New Mexico / Geo. F. Of / 59 West 56 St / New York, N.Y." (AD, Cleveland label, black ink) 4. "screw eye here" (AD, graphite) [twice]Provenance
(Doris Bry, New York, NY); Alice Pratt and George R. Brown, Houston, Texas, 1974; Descended in familyExhibition History
1939 New York (An American Place), no. 21, as Red Hill and White Shell?; 1940 Cleveland; 1943 Chicago, no. 59; 1971 Bryn Mawr, no. 14; 1987 Washington, no. 89; 1998 San Antonio, no. 41CREDITS & RIGHTS
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