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Georgia O'Keeffe
Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves, 1936
Georgia O'Keeffe
Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves, 1936
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Permanent Collection, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Marshall, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Winston [gift] (1957-18)

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

881

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: "Georgia O'Keeffe / Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves / $6000 [price] / $5000 [insurance valuation] / An American Place / Room 1710 – 509 Madison Ave – / New York" (AS, Whitney exhibition label, black ink)

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Mr. and Mrs. Courtland D. Barns, New York, NY, 1949; (The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); The artist, 1955; (The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Marshall, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Winston, Los Angeles, California, 1957

Exhibition History

1937 New York (An American Place – O'Keeffe), no. 3, as Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves; 1942 New York (Whitney), no. 61; 1948 Pittsburgh, no. 25; 1949 Indianapolis, no. 38; 1954 New York (Rockefeller Guest House); 1956 Lincoln, no. 65; 1956 New York (Downtown – Spring), no. 19; 1960 Utica, no. 79; 1963 Albuquerque, no. 81; 1980 Lincoln, no. 36; 1980 Berlin; 1985 Amarillo, no. 16
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8860