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Red Canna, 1924 by Georgia O'Keeffe. With Red Canna, Georgia O'keeffe continued the tendency to distill abstract patterns from natural sources, but now vastly enlarging the fragment of the blossom to fill the thirty-six-inch canvas.
Georgia O'Keeffe made a number of Red Canna paintings of the canna lily plant, first in watercolor, such as a red canna flower bouquet painted in 1915, but primarily abstract paintings of close-up images in oil.
Red Canna is one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s masterpieces, which was painted in the year 1924. This painting depicts a red canna flower, which is one of the many flowers O’Keeffe painted in her brilliant artistic career.
The flowers’ billowy petals and intense colors inspired O’Keeffe to create a series of paintings that included this one. Her early florals inspired O’Keeffe to further exploration, and flowers become a mainstay of her mature works.
Red Cannas is one example of O’Keeffe’s boldly colored flowers celebrating some of the natural patterns found when visiting Lake George, New York, with her husband.
Nov 13, 2021 · Red Canna by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1915, via The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; next to Red Canna by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1925-28, via University of Arizona Museum, Tucson, Arizona. Georgia O’Keeffe had been influenced by flowers since her early childhood living in rural Wisconsin.
Examples of some of her close-up images of flowers include Oriental Poppies, [5] [8] several Red Canna paintings, [9] and what has been described as her first large-scale flower painting, Petunia No. 2 (1924).
