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Calla Lily (Lily - Yellow No. 2)
Calla Lily (Lily - Yellow No. 2)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Calla Lily (Lily - Yellow No. 2)

Artist (American, 1887-1986)
Date1927
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions20 × 9 in. (50.8 × 22.9 cm)
Frame: 21 5/16 × 10 1/8 in. (54.2 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineWestheimer Family Collection
Object number2005.056
On View
On View
Provenance

[The Intimate Gallery, New York, by 1928; sold to Sachs]; Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (from 1928; given to Forbes)[1]; Margaret Laighton (Mrs. Edward W.) Forbes, Cambridge, MA (before 1946-d. 1966)[2]; her husband Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA (1966-d. 1969); [Doris Meltzer Gallery, New York, about 1970][3]; [Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc, New York, 1972-about 1983; sold to private collection][4]; Private collection, New York (before 1986)[5]; [Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, by 1986; Stock Number: B-5936-0; sold to Westheimer][6]; Jerome M. Westheimer, Ardmore, OK (1986-d. 2004; his bequest to OKCMOA)

[1] Lynes, Catalogue Raisonné (1999), no. 585
[2] Harvard Society, Exhibition (1929), no. 8 and Lynes, Catalogue Raisonné (1999), no. 585
[3] Doris Meltzer Gallery, Forbes (1970), no. 4 and Lynes, Catalogue Raisonné (1999), no. 585
[4] Schwartz, Nevelson and O’Keeffe (1983), no. 27; Lynes, Catalogue Raisonné (1999), no. 585; and various labels on verso of work
[5] Scott, Selections from the Westheimer Collection (1988), pg. 106 [as Stanley Arkin] and Lynes, Catalogue Raisonné (1999), no. 585
[6] Lynes, Catalogue Raisonné (1999), no. 585