Georgia O'Keeffe's 1936 work Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 depicts jimson weed.
The painting shows a large white jimson weed flower against a pale background. O'Keeffe enlarged flowers so dramatically that viewers could study their folds, curves, and tonal changes as abstract compositions rather than as small botanical details.
Jimson weed is also called Datura stramonium, a plant with trumpet-shaped flowers. The title’s slash separates the plant’s common name from a descriptive phrase identifying it as a white flower. It is not a painting of a calla lily, poppy, or iris, although O'Keeffe painted all of those kinds of flowers in other works.
The painting became especially famous because it sold for $44.4 million in 2014, a record price at auction for a work by a female artist at that time. Its scale and simplicity helped make it an iconic example of O'Keeffe’s flower paintings.