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630 Forest Ave. Portland ME 04101 800.773.4154 www.phoenixstudio.com ne art glass design Phoenix StudioRestoration and Design of Fine Art Glass since 1976 Above Sun Water Maine 1922. Opposite page Shell No. 2 1928. 54 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine fromtopofferedatchristies2012georgiaokeeffemuseum birch logs. Georgia spent her days walking on the long windy empty beach scaveng- ing for odd bits that she brought back set in platters of water and painted. In the evening she watched for the lighthouse to begin its quiet comforting rhythm across the night- time sky and the wide darkening beach the deep black water. Because OKeeffe describes the light- house as far away on the horizon in one of her letters it can only be Boon Island light. Considering the elastic curves of her art its hard not to think of her stopping by the Goldenrod luncheonettealready decades oldwatching spellbound as the taffy was stretched in the windows and shyly walk- ing in to buy candy kisses. In all there were four York Beach pic- tures according to Robinson. During this extraordinary period of psychic recovery and self-interrogation she gathered her- self to stun the art world. From Georgias four weeks in Maine the haunting shell se- ries was produced Her ruminations on the theme of the shell range from the high- ly representational to the purely abstract. Most powerful are the clamshells open and closed small works monumental images. In these the clamshells seam is centered in the narrow perpendicular space. The sense of monumentality is achieved by the space given to the shell within the rectangle the smooth enigmatic curves dominate filling it entirely except for the corners It is possible to argue the vulval nature of these imagesthey are it is true interior chambers lined with soft and intimate sur- faces. More central to their meaning how- ever seems to be their essential qualities of openness and closedness. The cool inevita- bility of a closed shell the quiet suspense of a barely opened one are qualities far more compelling than a purely sexual interpreta- tion would permit Other shell images bring to mind the in- ner ear where you can almost hear these paintings. Whether or not the series was meant to parallel OKeeffes swift and abso-