Facts about Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Canna
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Georgia O'Keeffe created multiple versions of Red Canna across several years, exploring the same subject with varying color intensities and compositional approaches.
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Vibrant red and orange hues dominate Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Canna, rendered in oil paint to capture the luminous, translucent quality of the flower's petals.
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The close-up, abstracted treatment of canna lilies in Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Canna invites comparisons to microscopic or anatomical imagery, a reading O'Keeffe herself consistently rejected.
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A version of Red Canna is held in the collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson.
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Painted in the 1920s, Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Canna is among her celebrated series of large-scale flower paintings that filled the canvas with bold, intimate close-up forms.