O'Keeffe reiterated the pinwheel-shaped flowers' structure in the tight placement of the four blossoms in the painting.

Her use of rhythmic light and shade and a simplified palette underscores their fresh, simple beauty.

Jimson Weed was commissioned by cosmetics magnate Elizabeth Arden for the new Gymnasium Moderne of her Fifth Avenue Salon in New York City.

[3] The painting was acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1997, a gift of Eli Lilly and Company.

1 (1932), focusing on only a single flower, was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton in 2014 for $44,405,000, more than tripling the previous world record auction for a piece by a female artist.