I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

In 1924 Georgia O'Keeffe painted her first large-scale flower painting Petunia No. By age ten Georgia O'Keeffe had decided to become an artist and Georgia O'Keeffe and her sister received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. She painted flowers landscapes and traditional Hawaiian fishhooks.

She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens and New York buildings most of which date from the same decade. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15 1887 – March 6 1986) was an American artist.