Georgia O’Keeffe’s famous 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 depicts a jimson weed flower.
The painting presents a single large white bloom against a pale background. O’Keeffe enlarged flowers so viewers had to look closely at their shapes, folds, and internal structures rather than treating them as small decorative details.
Jimson weed is also called Datura stramonium. The plant is poisonous, and its trumpet-shaped flowers open at night, but O’Keeffe’s painting focuses on visual form rather than botanical danger.
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became especially famous after its 2014 sale at Sotheby’s. It sold for $44.4 million, then a record auction price for any work by a female artist. The sale made the painting a frequent subject of art-market reporting.