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Goat's Horns with Blue, 1945
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Goat's Horns with Blue, 1945
Pastel on paper, 27 3/4 x 35 inches
CR No. 1109
L.2023.2.1
Pastel on paper, 27 3/4 x 35 inches
Collection:Private Collection
L.2023.2.1
CR No. 1109

A textured brown goat's horn springs from its skull above a dark gray eye socket. The horn, with its twin barely visible behind it, creates a large circle that fills the composition. A patch of blue sky appears between the horns.

CR No. 1109

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Goat's Horns with Blue

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1946 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946... . No signature." Abiquiú Notebooks after 1959 indicates, "Sold by Halpert, 1959." (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

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

Technique

Pastel

Materials

Pastel on paper

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Source System ID

10222

Other IDs

1109, Catalogue Raisonné