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On the left is Georgia O’Keeffe’s Goat’s Horn with Red, from 1945. On the right is the Firefox logo.

MODERN ART NOTES, Tyler Green’s modern and contemporary art blog, via BoingBoing, reports:

As I read the blog trail on the creation of the Firefox logo, it sounds possible that O’Keeffe was a source. (Seems a little unlikely though — the Hirshhorn hasn’t had that painting out in forever and it’s hardly a well-known O’Keeffe.) Jon Hicks, a designer on the Firefox team that created the logo, has used art as a source before: Hokusai Katsushika’s The Great Wave, for example. (Here’s his blog post on the Firefox logo.)