Yellow Calla
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Object Details
- Date
- 1926
- 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.
- Topic
- Object\flower\lily
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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
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Woodward Foundation
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 1978.34
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.9 x 32.4 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- saam_1978.34