Claes Oldenburg, Baked Potato, Thrown in Corner, under Light Bulb, 1965 whitney.org/collection/w...

Image: Georgia O'Keeffe, Flower Abstraction, 1924. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Sandra Payson 85.47 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

As she remarked, "Paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it—I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."

Using close cropping techniques she learned from modernist photography, here O'Keeffe magnifies the flower, extending it beyond the frame of the painting. By using a small, ordinary flower to suggest the immensity of nature, O’Keeffe sought to undermine her viewers’ typical ways of looking.

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1970 whitney.org/collection/w...

Andy Warhol, (Archie and Dog), 1973 whitney.org/collection/w...

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George Bernard Wheeler, The Sphinx, 1924 whitney.org/collection/w...

Leon Levinstein, Untitled, n.d. whitney.org/collection/w...

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Alex Israel, Sky Backdrop, 2013 whitney.org/collection/w...