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Where Oh Where Is the O’Keeffe Painting?: A Georgia O’Keeffe painting has been formally declared “lost” by the Art Institute of Chicago, 20 years after a search for the misplaced painting began. Officials of the museum had continued to hope over two decades that “East River from the Shelton” would turn up, institute director James Woods said Tuesday. But after a recent inventory of 1,500 pieces in the museum’s department of 20th-Century paintings and sculpture, Wood said officials acknowledged that the painting was nowhere to be found. The 1926 work, valued between $250,000 and $500,000, depicts the view from a Manhattan hotel in which O’Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, lived.