Georgia O'Keeffe painted a large jimson weed flower in her 1932 work Jimson Weed.
Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1 presents a close-up white jimson weed blossom against a dark background. O'Keeffe often enlarged flowers so that viewers had to confront their forms, folds, and tonal changes at an unusually intimate scale. The painting belongs to her long-running exploration of natural subjects rather than being a literal botanical illustration.
The plant is also called Datura or moonflower and is poisonous. Its name should not be confused with the yucca and other desert plants that O'Keeffe painted in New Mexico. O'Keeffe began visiting the state in the late 1920s and drew on its flowers, bones, cliffs, and architecture for much of her later imagery.
The painting became especially famous decades after it was made. In 2014, it sold for $44.4 million, making it the most expensive painting by a woman sold at auction at that time.