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Georgia O'Keeffe
Goat's Head, 1957
Courtesy of McNay Art Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Goat's Head, 1957
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
CR No. 1311
Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Tom Slick (1973.34)
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Collection:McNay Art Museum
Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Tom Slick (1973.34)
CR No. 1311

Gray-green hills zigzag through the composition. A large, white goat's skull sits in the lower left corner of the scene. A small triangle of pink sky appears above the landscape.

CR No. 1311

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Goat's Head

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold by Halpert to Slick, June 1961." (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

The Estate of Tom Slick (1962-1973)
Tom Slick (1961-1962)
The Downtown Gallery

(Source: The McNay, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Jul 16 2025

Source System ID

10153

Other IDs

1311, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by The McNay in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

The object is executed in oil on canvas. There are some observable areas of mechanical cracking in the following areas: 3 ½ in. from the left and 7 ½ in. from the bottom; 7 ½ in. from the right and 4 ¾ in. from the bottom. There is also very slight cracking at the bottom edge of the canvas near the center. There is a possible abrasion near the center of the canvas. There are two dark pinpoint specks near the top of the canvas, at the extreme left and right edges.

The frame is brass and is the artist’s original construction. The left and right sides are very slightly bowed near the center. The brass shows signs of wear throughout, and there are observable graphite marks around most of the hardware.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Flaking paint and gouges secured and consolidated. Replacement keys were prepared and inserted where previously missing, and uniform tension was adjusted overall. Esther Schmidt Siegfried, Chief Conservator, Art Conservation Laboratory (1997)