Yellow Calla, 1926, oil on fiberboard, 9" x 13" Those who wrote of "sex" in her flower paintings had undoubtedly not studied the flowers to know how true was her expression of them. Georgia did not care what was said. It was impossible for her not to want to paint corollas, calyxes, petals, stems—the essential parts of the flower with all their depth of color and in their wondrous forms. She was painting nature, as it seemed to her, exciting and wonderfully alive. Anita Pollitzer, from "A Woman On Paper: Georgia
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