Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1926 painting of a huge red flower is titled Red Canna.
The painting enlarges the forms of a canna lily so that the viewer sees sweeping petals, folds, and intense red color rather than a complete botanical specimen. O'Keeffe repeatedly used close-up views of flowers during the 1920s, encouraging viewers to notice details they might normally overlook.
Red Canna belongs to a period when O'Keeffe’s flower paintings became central to her public identity. Critics and commentators often interpreted the works symbolically, especially in sexual terms, but O'Keeffe rejected the idea that her flowers were simply coded representations of female anatomy. She emphasized looking carefully at the flowers themselves.
The title is sometimes confused with her related flower paintings, including Red Poppy and Black Iris III. Those works share bold color and enlarged forms but depict different plants and compositions.