An anatomically correct drawing of an eye by Flannery O’Connor.

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An anatomically correct drawing of an eye by Flannery O’Connor.

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A painting by Flannery O’Connor of a barn still at Andalusia, the Milledgeville farm where O’Connor spent her adult life.

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A painting by Flannery O’Connor of a barn still at Andalusia, the Milledgeville farm where O’Connor spent her adult life.

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One of two paintings of the same church in the exhibit. Curators believe it may be First Presbyterian Church in downtown Milledgeville.

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One of two paintings of the same church in the exhibit. Curators believe it may be First Presbyterian Church in downtown Milledgeville.

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The collection of O’Connor ephemera at the Andalusia Farm interpretative center includes scores of photographs of and by Flannery O’Connor, too.

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The collection of O’Connor ephemera at the Andalusia Farm interpretative center includes scores of photographs of and by Flannery O’Connor, too.

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Portrait of a seated woman, left, and three guinea fowl, right, are among the previously unknown works by author Flannery O’Connor now on display in Milledgeville.

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Portrait of a seated woman, left, and three guinea fowl, right, are among the previously unknown works by author Flannery O’Connor now on display in Milledgeville.

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Previously unknown paintings by author Flannery O’Connor now on display in Milledgeville.

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Previously unknown paintings by author Flannery O’Connor now on display in Milledgeville.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Flannery O’Connor drew and painted these faces on little pieces of wood when she was a child.

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Flannery O’Connor drew and painted these faces on little pieces of wood when she was a child.

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The collection of O’Connor ephemera at the Andalusia Farm interpretative center includes scores of photographs of and by Flannery O’Connor, too.

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The collection of O’Connor ephemera at the Andalusia Farm interpretative center includes scores of photographs of and by Flannery O’Connor, too.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

The collection of O’Connor ephemera at the Andalusia Farm interpretative center includes scores of photographs of and by Flannery O’Connor, too.

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The collection of O’Connor ephemera at the Andalusia Farm interpretative center includes scores of photographs of and by Flannery O’Connor, too.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

This still standing barn at the Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville was just one subject for the painting of author Flannery O’Connor.

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This still standing barn at the Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville was just one subject for the painting of author Flannery O’Connor.

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This still standing barn at the Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville was just one subject for the painting of author Flannery O'Connor.

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This still standing barn at the Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville was just one subject for the painting of author Flannery O'Connor.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

A painting by Flannery O’Connor of a barn still at Andalusia, the Milledgeville farm where O’Connor spent her adult life.

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A painting by Flannery O’Connor of a barn still at Andalusia, the Milledgeville farm where O’Connor spent her adult life.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

A painting by Flannery O’Connor of a barn still at Andalusia, the Milledgeville farm where O’Connor spent her adult life.

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A painting by Flannery O’Connor of a barn still at Andalusia, the Milledgeville farm where O’Connor spent her adult life.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Previously unknown paintings by author Flannery O’Connor now on display in Milledgeville.

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Previously unknown paintings by author Flannery O’Connor stand on display in Milledgeville, Ga.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Guinea fowl and a butterfly by Flannery O’Connor.

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Guinea fowl and a butterfly by Flannery O’Connor.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Two paintings of the same church in the exhibit. Curators believe it may be First Presbyterian Church in downtown Milledgeville.

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Two paintings of the same church in the exhibit. Curators believe it may be First Presbyterian Church in downtown Milledgeville.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Flannery O’Connor’s portrait of herself with a pheasant, on display with many other paintings by the author often touted as the finest writer of the Southern Gothic, on the grounds of the farm in Milledgeville where she spent her adult life.

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Flannery O’Connor’s portrait of herself with a pheasant, on display with many other paintings by the author often touted as the finest writer of the Southern Gothic, on the grounds of the farm in Milledgeville where she spent her adult life.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Flannery O’Connor’s portrait of herself with a pheasant, on display with many other paintings by the author often touted as the finest writer of the Southern Gothic, on the grounds of the farm in Milledgeville where she spent her adult life.

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Flannery O’Connor’s portrait of herself with a pheasant, on display with many other paintings by the author often touted as the finest writer of the Southern Gothic, on the grounds of the farm in Milledgeville where she spent her adult life.

Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB News

Artwork by Southern writer Flannery O’Connor is being displayed March 26 in Milledgeville, Ga., at the Georgia College and State University Magnolia Ballroom.

While O’Connor is well known for her short stories and novels that cultivated the Southern Gothic literary style, she was also a prolific visual artist.

“She put out a lot of statements that she thought all writers should draw, because it forced you to sit and stare and look and really see something if you had to draw it," said Katie Simon, interim executive director of the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities at Georgia College and State University. "So, from that standpoint, obviously she really knows her cows. She knows her trees. She knows her barn."

A collection of 70 pieces ranging from paintings of birds, which O'Connor famously loved, to landscapes of O’Connor’s home, Andalusia, to a self-portrait will be on display. The majority of the pieces have never been seen by the public.

“That's what's exciting about this exhibit is that now, we have a chance to start synthesizing it and thinking about what it means to her literary output, because she's quite famous for her literary output,” Simon said.

The artwork is being unveiled in part to honor O'Connor's 100th birthday, which would have been March 25. She died in 1964 at age 39.

The collection is open to the public Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Georgia College and State University Magnolia Ballroom. Some of the pieces will then be on display at Andalusia Farm, where O’Connor lived the last 13 years of her life.