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Georgia O'Keeffe
Horse's Skull with White Rose, 1931
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR777_horses-skull-with-white-rose_786521.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Horse's Skull with White Rose, 1931
Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 16 1/8 inches
CR No. 777
Gift of Anne Windfohr Grimes, Anne Windfohr Marion, and Anne Burnett Tandy
2021.8.1
Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 16 1/8 inches
Gift of Anne Windfohr Grimes, Anne Windfohr Marion, and Anne Burnett Tandy
2021.8.1
CR No. 777

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

(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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/4/2026

Source System ID

100

Other IDs

777, Catalogue Raisonné