Talk:Jimson Weed (painting)

Why this particular Jimson Weed?

Georgia O'Keeffe painted more than one. This, whilst giving a little advert to the commercial company that owns it, is not the most famous.

The most notable is arguably Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), which was sold at Sotheby's on November 20 for $44.4 million, making it the most expensive painting by a female artist sold at auction. http://news.artnet.com/market/who-are-the-most-expensive-women-artists-at-auction-179521 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.101.151 (talk) 08:08, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

frog blossoms

"O'Keeffe reiterated the pinwheel-shaped flowers' structure in the tight placement of the frog blossoms in the painting." What are "frog blossoms"? Bus stop (talk) 12:54, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

is this really Datura Stramonium?

It is probably datura inoxia or datura wrightii, which would have grown in the desert where she lived. Not datura stramonium.

"Jimson weed, a desert plant that bloomed in the cool evening hours, thrived in the territory near O’Keeffe’s house in Abiquiu, New Mexico."

O’Keeffe utilized the Jimson weed as subject matter on multiple occasions, presenting it each time with a new viewpoint or altered perspective (fig. 1). The beauty of the blossom first attracted her when she discovered a group of them near her home in New Mexico, where these poisonous flowers grew in abundance. She examined one closely and remarked that “It is a beautiful white trumpet flower with strong veins that hold the flower open and grow longer than the round part of the flower—twisting as they grow off beyond it…Some of them are a pale green in the center—some a pale Mars violet. The Jimson weed blooms in the cool of the evening—one moonlight night at the Ranch I counted one hundred and twenty five flowers. The flowers die in the heat of the day…Now when I think of the delicate fragrance of the flowers, I almost feel the coolness and sweetness of the evening” (Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, 1976, n.p.)

We’ve come up against the vagueness of common names! Wikipedia asserts that jimson weed = D. stramonium. However, it seems likely that several species have been given this name over the years. Lacking an authoritative source, I’ve reverted to a more generic reference. Darorcilmir (talk) 04:46, 30 January 2019 (UTC)