Yellow Calla

Object Details

Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe, born Sun Prairie, WI 1887-died Santa Fe, NM 1986

Luce Center Label

The waxy, long-stemmed calla lily captivated Georgia O'Keeffe in the 1920s. The calla lily was a popular subject in American art in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was fashionable to read sexual and psychological values into the blooms. (Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940, 2002). But O'Keeffe objected to this, and insisted that the point of painting any flower so closely and hypnotically was to make people see it for the first time.

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Woodward Foundation

1926

Object number

1978.34

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Painting

Medium

oil on fiberboard

Dimensions

9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.9 x 32.4 cm)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Painting and Sculpture

On View

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 33B

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Object\flower\lily

Record ID

saam_1978.34

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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