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Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 16 1/8 inches
CR No. 777
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Gift of Anne Windfohr Grimes, Anne Windfohr Marion, and Anne Burnett Tandy
2021.8.1
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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.
CR No. 777
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Horse's Skull with White Rose
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, backing inscription.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Lent [to 1935 exhibition] by Mr. Wright Ludington. Painted 1931. "Pictured in 1931–32 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 49, 50.Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1931. Backing inscription dates 1932. Dated 1931 on basis of inclusion in 1931–32 exhibition. Reproduced and titled Horse's Skull and White Rose in Springfield Republican (January 1932), Skull and Feathers in Time (1937), reproduced in American Artist (June 1943). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "Horse's Skull with White Rose / 1932 / (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
2003–2004
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection
IBM Gallery of Science and Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
2010–2011
2008–2009
Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2011–2012
2018–2019
1997–1998
1998–1999
(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 Descended in family (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/4/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
100
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