Petunias

The year she and the photographer Alfred Stieglitz were married, O’Keeffe planted a patch of flowers at the Stieglitz family summer home in upstate New York. Petunias is one of a dozen works she would paint from those plants over the next two years. She once declared, “Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower—and what is my experience of the flower if not color?”