- Title
- Arabella with Calla Lillies
- Date Made
- 1934
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 55 × 39 in. (139.7 × 99.06 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.91.326
- Collecting Area
- American Art
- Curatorial Notes
From the exhibition Stanton Macdonald-Wright and His Circle at LACMA
January 29-May 28, 2003
Mabel Alvarez was already an accomplished painter when she met Macdonald-Wright in 1919; later she became his student. In 1928 she described his influence on her work as opening up a whole new world. Alvarez had painted several works by 1934 depicting her friend and frequent model, Arabella, portrayed here. One of these, Morning, won first prize at the 1933 California Art Club annual exhibition. Another, Mood, is very similar in composition, execution, and expression to Arabella with Calla Lillies and helped establish her national reputation. Mood was exhibited in 1934 with works by five other Los Angeles artists in Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Selected Bibliography
- Mabel Alvarez, a Retrospective. Los Angeles: Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 1999.
