Calla Lily Turned Away, 1923
Calla Lily Turned Away, 1923
Pastel on paper, 14 x 10 7/8 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.18.2
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Small vertical pastel of white oval shaped calla lily flower with a green stem and single leaf featured in the center over a greyish-white background. The direction of the flower spirals away from the picture plain, hence suggesting a turning away from the viewer.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
423
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Backing:1. "Calla Lily Turned Away" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphite)
3. "Georgia O'Keeffe - / 1923" (black ink)
Provenance
(The Intimate Gallery, New York, N.Y.) ^Mitchell Kennerley, New York, N.Y., 1928 ^(An American Place, New York, N.Y.), return, 1931 ^The artist, 1946 ^Estate of the artist, 1986 ^Private collection, 1987 ^The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996Exhibition History
1928 New York (Intimate Gallery--Six)1989 Milwaukee, no. 17
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Four Painters of the Stieglitz Circle
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Eye of Modernism
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Calla Lily in American Art
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Color and Conservation
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Circling Around Abstraction)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and the Camera)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Modern Nature
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Georgia O'Keeffe's Farwide Texas
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Burnett Foundation Gift
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