Georgia O'Keeffe's 1926 painting of a large black flower is titled Black Iris.
Black Iris is an oil painting from 1926 in which O'Keeffe magnifies and simplifies an iris until its petals dominate the canvas. The close-up view encourages viewers to focus on shape, tonal transitions, and the movement of the petals rather than on the flower as a small botanical object.
The work is often discussed alongside O'Keeffe's flower paintings, many of which generated interpretations she rejected or considered too narrowly sexualized. She explained that enlarging flowers allowed people to notice them, because most people in cities hurried past them. Black Iris is sometimes confused with Black Iris III, another O'Keeffe flower painting from 1926; the shorter title identifies the work asked for here.