Which 1928 Georgia O’Keeffe painting is known for its enormous red poppies?

Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1928 painting known for enormous red poppies is Oriental Poppies.

Oriental Poppies was painted in 1928 and presents two intensely colored red flowers enlarged to fill the composition. The work demonstrates O’Keeffe’s ability to make botanical subjects appear both recognizable and abstract through scale, cropping, and simplified form.

The flowers are oriental poppies, whose broad petals and dark centers create strong contrasts. O’Keeffe’s flower paintings became especially prominent during her New York years, when she was developing a public reputation as a leading American modernist.

Oriental Poppies is sometimes mixed up with Black Iris or Jimson Weed, but those works depict different flowers and belong to different moments in her flower series. The title itself supplies the key identification: the painting shows oriental poppies, not irises or jimson weed.