Which 1936 Georgia O'Keeffe painting depicts a white jimson weed against a dark background?

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Georgia O'Keeffe's 1936 painting of a white jimson weed against a dark background is Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.

The painting presents a single large white flower with a green center, set against a nearly black field. Its monumental scale and close framing turn a familiar plant into an imposing abstract-like form.

O'Keeffe often painted flowers at a size that required viewers to confront details normally missed. Jimson Weed was especially meaningful to her because the plant grew near her home in New Mexico. She made multiple paintings of the flower and related forms.

The work became widely known after it sold at auction in 2014 for $44.4 million, then a record price for a work by a female artist. That sale concerns this specific painting, not every O'Keeffe flower painting.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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