
Arthur Garfield Dove
Moon
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
New Mexico No. 2
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Attributed to Pablo Picasso
Tête de femme (Woman’s Head)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Yellow, Blue, and Violet
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Beau Blanc, St. Jeannet
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Gino Severini
Femme assise dans un square (Woman Sitting in a Square)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Swinging in the Park (There Were Colored People There)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Bernard Karfiol
Nude and Figure
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Painting No. 69
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Duncan
Abstraction—Landscape
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Spring Synchromy
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Benjamin Kopman
Portrait—Bear
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Maine Landscape, Autumn No. 13 (recto); Untitled (verso)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Red Tree and Sun
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Jules Pascin
Girl Seated
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Landscape No. 19
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Georgia O’Keeffe
Radiator Building—Night, New York
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Painting No. 3
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Florine Stettheimer
Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Vase of Flowers
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Diego Rivera
Le sucrier et les bougies (Sugar Bowl and Candles)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Still Life No. 1
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Henry Maurer
Girl in Red Dress
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Calla Lilies (Bert Savoy)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Movement No. 6, Provincetown
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Georgia O’Keeffe
Flying Backbone
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Something in Brown, Carmine, and Blue
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Movement No. 7, Provincetown
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Gino Severini
Femme et enfant (Woman and Child)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
1883 - 1935
Calla Lilies (Bert Savoy)
1927
Oil on composition board
41 x 47 1/2 in. (104.1 x 120.7 cm)
Framed: 46 x 52 x 1 1/2 in. (116.8 x 132.1 x 3.8 cm)
Demuth painted “poster portraits” of friends during the 1920s, including O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Charles Duncan. The paintings depict their subjects through symbolic elements that refer to their lives. Bert Savoy was a famous female impersonator in New York vaudeville who died in 1923 when struck by lightning on a beach in Long Island. The shell and wave refer to the beach, and calla lilies are traditionally associated with funerals.
Demuth often included the name of his subjects on his poster portraits, but omitted Savoy’s, disguising his identity just as the actor hid his biological gender on stage. Calla lilies are also used in weddings, representing the union of male and female, which would also have been appropriate for Savoy. Viewers unfamiliar with Savoy and his death would experience the painting simply as a lyrical still life, but those able to read the codes would discover the actor’s identity and understand the reference to his, and Demuth’s, homosexuality.