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Ms. Dorothy Braude Edinburg

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Drawn with charcoal on parchment-white paper, the tightly coiled spiral of a shark eye shell nearly fills this rectangular drawing. The jagged opening of the shell is at the lower right, and the shell curves up and to our left, counterclockwise, into a tight spiral at the center. The wider planes of the outer layers are shaded silvery gray, and they darken to black at the center. A thin shadow is suggested by a soft rim of charcoal around the edges of the shell.
Georgia O'Keeffe, The Shell, 1934, charcoal on laid paper, From the Collection of Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1978.38.1

The Shell

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1934 · charcoal on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1978.38.1

Charles Sheeler, Chartres Cathedral, 1929, charcoal, From the Collection of Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1978.69.1

Chartres Cathedral

Charles Sheeler · 1929 · charcoal ·  Accession ID  1978.69.1