Georgia O'Keeffe made her first large-scale flower paintings in 1924.
The year 1924 marks an important development in O'Keeffe's career: she began making the enlarged flower paintings for which she became especially famous. These works magnified petals and centers so that a small natural subject could fill the entire composition.
Her flower paintings were not simply botanical illustrations. O'Keeffe used close cropping, simplified forms, and intense color to encourage viewers to look carefully at shapes that might otherwise seem ordinary. Works such as her large flower compositions became central to her public reputation during the 1920s.
The date can be confused with 1916, when Alfred Stieglitz first exhibited her abstract drawings, or with 1932, when she painted Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1. Those are important dates, but 1924 is the year associated with the beginning of her large-scale flower series.