Red Canna – O’Keeffe’s Famous “Flower/Vagina” Painting
Georgia O’Keeffe created loads of red canna paintings of the canna lily plant; first, she performed in watercolor, such as a red canna flower bouquet painted in 1915, but mainly abstract paintings of close-up images in oil. Even though Georgia O’Keeffe expressed that in these close-up images of “Red Canna” and her other flower paintings, she only illustrated flowers, these paintings are better known for the depiction of a vagina, rather than a flower!…
