
Art Institute of Chicago
White Shell with Red
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1938
Provenance
Ownership history
- Bequeathed by the artist to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Am American Place, Oct. 1940, cat. 15.
- New York, Downtown Gallery, "O'Keeffe," Feb. 19-Mar. 8, 1952, cat. 17.
- Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986," Nov. 1, 1987-Feb. 21, 1988, cat 88 (ill.); also the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5-June 19, 1988; the Dallas Museum of Art, July 31-Oct. 16, 1988; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 19, 1988-Feb. 5, 1989.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "An American Conversation: Works on Paper from Two Collections," Apr.-July 2005.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," Jan. 30-May 3, 2010, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 70.
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