Georgia O'Keeffe's famous 1932 painting Jimson Weed depicts a jimson weed flower.
The painting presents a large, pale, trumpet-shaped bloom against a dark background. O'Keeffe frequently enlarged flowers so that viewers had to confront their forms and details rather than glance at them as familiar decorative objects. Jimson Weed is among her best-known flower paintings.
The plant is also called Datura, and the species associated with the painting is poisonous. Its dramatic white flower and strong shape made it a compelling subject, but the work should not be mistaken for a painting of a lily or a morning glory, even though those flowers can have similarly trumpet-like forms.
The painting was made in 1932, during the period when O'Keeffe was already an established modernist. In 2014, it sold at auction for $44.4 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings by a woman ever sold at auction at that time.