Red Hill and White Shell

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Artist Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)American, 1887–1986

CultureAmerican

Titles

Red Hill and White Shell

Date1938

PlaceNew Mexico, United States

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 30 × 36 1/2 in. (76.2 × 92.7 cm)
Frame: 31 3/8 × 37 3/8 × 3 1/4 in. (79.7 × 94.9 × 8.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Isabel B. Wilson in memory of her mother, Alice Pratt Brown

Object number91.2027

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 203

On view

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Department

American Art

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceDoris Bry, New York, until 1972; sold to Mrs. George R. Brown (née Alice Pratt), Houston, 1972–1982, given to Isabel B. Wilson, 1982–1991; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Georgia O'Keeffe, New Work," An American Place, New York, January 22–March 17, 1939.

"Sixteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting," Cleveland Museum of Art, June 13–July 14, 1940.

"Georgia O'Keeffe, a Retrospective," Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

Bryn Mawr College, 1971.

"Georgia O'Keeffe," National Gallery of Art, Washington.

"The Private Eye: Selected Works from Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 10–August 13, 1989.

"O'Keeffe and Texas," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, January 27–April 5, 1998.

"Georgia O'Keeffe: From the Plains," Kunsthaus Zurich, October 23, 2003–February 1, 2004.

"Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities," Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, May 23–September 7, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, September 26, 2008–January 4, 2009; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 24–May 3, 2009; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 22–September 27, 2009.

"American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 7, 2012–January 2, 2013.

"Georgia O'Keeffe and Southwestern Still-Life," Indianapolis Museum of Art,
November 2, 2014–February 15, 2015; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, March 1–June 7, 2015.

"On the Origin of Art," Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, Australia, November 5, 2016–April 17, 2017.

"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.

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