Modernist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) was blazing new creative trails at a time when women were not recognized in the art world. Rejecting artistic norms, O’Keeffe expressed her own feelings through the vibrant colors and flowing forms of her enormous representations of flowers, like she did with her painting “Red Canna.” Magnified into stunning abstractions, O’Keeffe’s works riveted focus on the simple elements of flowers which are often overlooked.