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•http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.278.1


Black Iris, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926.
This is one of my well known flower paintings.  My first flower paintings were shown in Gallery 291 in 1924, and even Stieglitz was even surprised by the boldness of them.  All the critics thought they were very sexual but that was not my intention.  


•"Georgia O'Keeffe: Black Iris (69.278.1)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.278.1 (October 2006)