Horse's Skull with White Rose, 1931
Horse's Skull with White Rose, 1931
Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 16 1/8 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of Anne Windfohr Grimes, Anne Windfohr Marion, and Anne Burnett Tandy
2021.8.1
Vertical painting of frontal view of horse's skull with a white rose centered on the forehead. The skull fills most of the canvas, floating in a pure black background.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
777
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing: "Horse's Skull with White Rose / 1932 / (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink)
Provenance
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Wright Ludington, Santa Barbara, Calif., by 1944 Richard L. Feigen & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., 1965 Private collection, Fort Worth, Tex., 1965 Desended in familyExhibition History
1931-32 New York (An American Place)1935 San Francisco, no. 403
1958 Claremont, no. 49
1958 Santa Barbara, no. 83
1964 Los Angeles
1985 Amarillo, no. 14
1987 Washington, no. 82
1992 Washington
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Poetry of Things
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Frames of Preference / Maria Chabot / Sense of Place)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and the Camera; all venues
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Katsina)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modern Nature)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Abiquiu Views x 2)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GR Views / Covarrubias)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's New Mexico
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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