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Oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 30 inches
CR No. 876
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.14
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Vertical canvas of pink hills with large frontal view of a mule's skull in the lower left. Large cloud-filled blue sky with two floating pink poinsettia flowers, both almost as large as the skull, hovering above in the sky in the middle and upper right of the canvas.
CR No. 876
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettia
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Skull and Poinsettias
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Same Skull with Pink Poinsettias
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettia
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Mule's Head with Pink Poinsettia
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Poinsettia
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946." Backing inscription dates 1937. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1936. Dated 1936 on basis of inclusion in 1937 New York (An American Place – O'Keeffe) exhibition. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions Backing:
- OK {5star} (graphite) [twice]
- "to be marked by Georgia O'Keeffe" [below second {5star}] (William Einstein, Graphite)
- "Skull and Poinsettas 1937 / by George O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
1966
2003–2004
1988–1989
Phoenix Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
National Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
Aspen Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
2024–2025
San Diego Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Albuquerque Museum (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Musee Des Beaux-Arts Montreal (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Boston) (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
2010–2011
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2014–2016
Indianapolis Museum of Art (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
Art Museum of South Texas (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
Tacoma Art Museum (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
2018–2019
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
San Jose Museum of Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
1997–1998
1998–1999
2017–2019
2019–2020
1962–1963
The Speed Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Quincy Art Center (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Frye Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
University of Oregon (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Boise Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Allentown Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Gibbes Museum of Art (as The Stieglitz Circle)
None (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Public Library of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Augustana College Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Orange County Museum of Art (as The Stieglitz Circle)
(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.)
Private collection, New York, N.Y., 1971
(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.)
Loretta and Robert K. Lifton, New York, 1976
Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1978
(Sovereign American Arts Corporation, Winchester, Va.)
S. R. Koman, Inc., Winchester, Va., 1983
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.)
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/19/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
82
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