The Shell
Georgia O'Keeffe
1934
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View on museum website →Medium
charcoal on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 47.3 x 62.2 cm (18 5/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
From the Collection of Dorothy Braude Edinburg
Accession Number
1978.38.1
About the Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) is one of the most significant and original figures in the history of American art, a painter whose career spanned more than seven decades and whose work transformed how American artists engaged with the natural world and with abstraction. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she received rigorous academic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art S...