The painting featured here is the 4th in a series of 6, most of which were later given by the artist to the National Gallery. Artist O'Keeffe would enlarge her flowers by such a degree that they would become clear collections of abstract lines and shapes.
This appealed to her modernist style and also gave her work exceptional impact.
Through the series she became more abstract, making the Jack in the Pulpit series important in understanding the development of this artist. Initially she would capture the striped bloom of the flower before focusing intently on smaller elements, but in greater detail.
By definition of this development, iteration IV offers a midpoint in this transformation.
Georgia believed that closer and closer inspection of nature would lead to a better understanding of it, as well as becoming more and more abstract in an artwork's content.