Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettias, 1936
Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettias, 1936
Oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 30 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.14
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical canvas of pink hills with large frontal view of a mule's skull in the lower left. Large cloud-filled blue sky with two floating pink poinsettia flowers, both almost as large as the skull, hovering above in the sky in the middle and upper right of the canvas.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
876
Inscriptions
Inscriptions Backing:1. OK * (graphite) [twice]
2. "to be marked by Georgia O'Keeffe" [below second *] (WE, Graphite)
3. "Skull and Poinsettas 1937 / by George O'Keeffe" (WE, AAP6, black ink)
Provenance
(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, New York, N.Y., 1971 (Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Loretta and Robert K. Lifton, New York, 1976 Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1978 (Sovereign American Arts Corporation, Winchester, Va.) S. R. Koman, Inc., Winchester, Va., 1983 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996Exhibition History
1937 New York (An American Place--(O'Keeffe), no. 21, as Same Skull with Pink Poincetta [sic]1955 San Francisco (United Nations)
1956 Providence
1960 New York (Downtown--Group--Feb.)
1961 Wilmington
1962 New York (MOMA--Stieglitz)
1966 Albuquerque
1983 Roslyn, no. 6
1988 Phoenix, no. 24
1991 New York (Hirschl & Adler), no. 64
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (O'Keeffe's O'Keeffe's)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
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 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2014 Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-life Painting in New Mexico, Indianapolis Museum of Art (Nov. 2, 2014 - Feb. 15, 2015); Tacoma Museum of Art,(March 1 - June 7, 2015)
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
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