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Georgia O'Keeffe
Buffalo Skull
Georgia O'Keeffe
Buffalo Skull
Date: probably 1966
Photographer: Georgia O'Keeffe
ARCHIVAL LOCATION
Box F1 color photographs
DESCRIPTION
Abstract
Photograph of the buffalo skull given to Georgia O'Keeffe in the 1930s by Robert Johnson. Buffalo skull with the horns suspended from the portal between two vigas, sky and clouds visible. Handwritten by O'Keeffe in black ink on verso: "This is in the portal as you go toward//the studio door—It was picked up//by the old Theodore Roosefelt [sic] party when//they toured the West years ago. The//son of one of the party gave it to me//It is a buffalo head—G"
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Copyright Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
System ID: aspace_9a6c8ca70e473fe62ee60eb3ab1eb648
Accession No.: 2006.6.283