Georgia O'Keeffe's 1928 painting of a red-and-yellow flower is titled Red Canna.
Red Canna belongs to O'Keeffe's celebrated flower paintings, in which she enlarged blossoms until their contours and color relationships filled the composition. The painting presents the layered, curling forms of a canna flower in intense reds, oranges, and yellows.
O'Keeffe painted many flowers during the 1920s and 1930s, but she resisted the claim that the works should be treated simply as coded symbols. She explained that enlarging flowers allowed people to notice them, since many viewers passed them without looking closely.
Red Canna is distinct from Red Poppy, another flower title associated with O'Keeffe, and from her iris and calla lily paintings. The word canna identifies the specific flower represented in this 1928 work.