Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1

Georgia O'Keeffe painted this monumental white flower in 1932 near her New Mexico home. The jimsonweed blossom fills the canvas, its petals swirling outward against a soft background. O'Keeffe believed people overlooked the beauty in small natural forms, so she painted them large enough that "even busy New Yorkers" would have to stop and notice.

The painting remained with O'Keeffe's family until the 1980s, passing through several private collections before being gifted to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. It even hung for several years in the President's Dining Room at the White House during the George W. Bush administration.

In November 2014, Sotheby's sold the painting for $44.4 million, more than tripling its $15 million high estimate and setting the record for the most expensive work by a female artist at auction. Walmart heiress Alice Walton purchased it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, where this celebration of floral beauty now resides.