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The exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940, is the first to examine the great appeal of this exotic flower's as a subject for American painters and photographers. It presents a visual feast of 54 depictions of the calla by 33 different artists, such as Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley. Rebecca James, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Stella, and Edward Weston. its nine paintings of this elegant bloom by O'Keeffe, six by Hartley, and one by Demuth acknowledge the importance of this subject to the Stieglitz circle of modernist artists. Those by O'Keeffe, who became known as "The Lady of the Lily" in the 1920s because of the frequency and compelling ways in which she depicted the flower, define her achievement with respect to this subject and within the context of that of other American artists.