When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

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.