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Georgia O'Keeffe
Calla Lilies with Red Anemone, 1928
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Calla Lilies with Red Anemone, 1928
Oil on board, 48 1/4 x 29 3/4 inches
CR No. 630
Oil on board, 48 1/4 x 29 3/4 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 630

Two white calla lilies with bright yellow stamens spring from the center of the work. Behind the lower calla lily is a red anemone flower with a purplish-black center. All of the flowers rest against a textured white background that resembles draped fabric.

CR No. 630

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Calla Lilies with Red Anemone

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1929 New York (Intimate Gallery) exhibition checklist.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Calla Lilies

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

General Remarks

Double entries Whitney Archive. Whitney Archive indicates owner in 1946 wrote in response to WQ, "Signature of Georgia O'Keeffe –– O'Keeffe seldom signs her pictures I am told but I asked her to sign this one & I think the signature is in the lower corner. Miss O'Keeffe writes me she put a 'star' on the picture. In reading Georgia O'Keeffe's letter, I see that she says 'I have put my star and my name on the back of your picture.'" Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Back: Signed. Note: Bought January 1939." Reproduced and titled Calla Lilies in Independent Woman (November 1940) and oriented as a horizontal with anemone on left. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on board

(An American Place, New York, NY); Private collection, San Francisco, California, 1939 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/16/2026

Source System ID

8691

Other IDs

630, Catalogue Raisonné