What was the title of Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1932 painting of a white flower with a distant New Mexico landscape?

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1932 painting of a white flower with a distant New Mexico landscape is Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.

The work shows a large white jimson weed flower against a blue sky, with a small New Mexico landscape visible near the lower edge. O’Keeffe enlarged flowers so that viewers would notice their forms and details rather than pass them casually.

The painting became especially famous after it sold at auction in 2014 for $44.4 million, including fees. That price made it the most expensive painting by a female artist ever sold at auction at the time, although later sales changed the record.

The title is often shortened to Jimson Weed, but the full catalog title includes White Flower No. 1. It is also sometimes confused with O’Keeffe’s many iris or calla-lily paintings; the subject here is jimson weed, a flowering plant in the nightshade family.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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