Georgia O'Keeffe's 1926 painting Black Iris depicts an iris.
The work is an oil painting that enlarges and crops the flower so dramatically that its petals fill nearly the entire composition. O'Keeffe's close-up flower paintings became central to her public identity, although she resisted the idea that viewers should treat them only as symbolic or sensual images.
Black Iris belongs to a period when O'Keeffe was exploring how magnification, simplified contours, and intense color could make an ordinary natural form appear abstract. The flower remains identifiable, but its scale encourages viewers to focus on shape, folds, and tonal transitions.
The title is sometimes loosely associated with black lilies or poppies because O'Keeffe painted many different flowers. The specific flower in Black Iris is an iris, and the painting is also known as Black Iris III.