Georgia O'Keeffe

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Philadelphia (acquired from the above on 16 February 1951)

Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired in 1968)

Private Collection, New York (acquired in 1968)

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1968)

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Nancy Ellison and William D. Rollnick, New York (acquired from the above in 1970)

Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 2010, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: Recent Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Etc., 1931, no. 3 or 4 (titled From a Shell)

Toledo Museum of Art, 37th Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Paintings, 1950, no. 56

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1952, no. 65 (titled Inside a Clam Shell)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Dallas Museum of Art (and traveling), Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986, 1987-89, no. 62, illustrated in color (titled From A Shell)

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Dallas Museum of Art (and traveling), Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999-2000, pl. 38, p. 91, illustrated in color; p. 151 (titled From a Shell)

Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art, Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction, 2007-08, no. 26, illustrated in color; p. 132

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection and Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, 2009-10, pl. 117, p. 137, illustrated in color; p. 231 (New York only)

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, no. 708, vol. I, p. 427, illustrated in color; vol. II, p. 1121, illustrated (in installation image of New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: Recent Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Etc., 1931)

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, 2005, p. 319

Anelise Chen, Clam Down: A Metamorphosis, New York, 2025, p. 218