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Oil on canvas-covered board, 12 x 6 inches
CR No. 587
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw
1997.1.1
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Small vertical painting with lower 2/3 dominated by aerial view of a white calla lily flower, upper portion black and variations of grey.
CR No. 587
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Calla Lily for Alfred
Source of title: backing inscription 1.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Calla Lily with Black
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Lily – White with Black
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Calla Lily
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Calla Lily, White with Black
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Calla Lily, White with Black
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946....No signature" [notes inscriptions 1 and 3]. Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscription 1 and indicates, "N.F.S." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Verso: "#11" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing:
- "Calla Lily for alfred / 27" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "Georgia O'Keeffe -- / Spring -- 1927" (Label: printed, The Intimate Gallery, black ink)
- "Calla Lily / White Petunia ( Note: White Petunia has a line strikethrough the middle.) /with Black / exhibition 1928" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: printed, The Intimate Gallery, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas-covered board
2002–2003
Muscarelle Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art: 1860–1940)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art: 1860–1940)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
San Jose Museum of Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
2015–2016
1997–1998
1998–1999
Estate of the artist, 1986; Eugene and Clare Thaw, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1988 (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
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