Georgia O'Keeffe's 1926 painting of a red canna lily is titled Red Canna.
O'Keeffe repeatedly painted flowers at a large scale, cropping petals and centers so that viewers confronted their shapes and colors directly. Red Canna belongs to this important group of flower paintings and uses intense red and orange forms to fill the composition.
Her flower paintings were often interpreted symbolically or sexually, but O'Keeffe rejected the idea that viewers should treat every flower as a coded personal message. She emphasized looking closely at the subject itself and suggested that enlarged flowers helped people notice what they otherwise overlooked.
Red Canna is sometimes confused with other works in the same series, including Black Iris paintings and Jimson Weed paintings. Those titles identify different flowers and different compositions.