Georgia O'Keeffe’s Red Poppy became the first artwork by a woman artist reproduced on a U.S. postage stamp in 1996.
The United States Postal Service issued a stamp featuring Red Poppy as part of a series honoring American art. O'Keeffe’s flower paintings were especially suited to stamp reproduction because their bold shapes and intense colors remain recognizable at a small scale.
The stamp recognized both the artist and the wider significance of her flower imagery. O'Keeffe’s close-up blooms are often described as enlarged botanical studies, but their simplified forms also connect them to American modernism and abstraction.
Titles can cause confusion because O'Keeffe painted several famous flower subjects, including Black Iris, Jimson Weed, and Oriental Poppies. Red Poppy is the specific work associated with this 1996 postal milestone, not a general label for all of her flower paintings.