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Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 775
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Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
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A smooth, white horse's skull rests on a rippled sheet of white paper or fabric. Just above the skull's eye socket, a light pink rose sits, framed by two green leaves.
CR No. 775
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Horse's Skull with Pink Rose
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Horse's Head
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
Horse's Skull & Pink Rose
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
General Remarks
Double entries Whitney Archive. Whitney Archive indicates, "Owned by Miss O'Keeffe. Painted in 1931." An indicates, "Back: Star" [not verified]. Pictured in 1931–32 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 49, 50. Reproduced and titled Life and Death in New York Herald Tribune (December 1931); Life and Death in Vanity Fair (April 1932) [these titles were assigned by Stieglitz]; Horse's Skull with Pink Rose in *America & Alfred Stieglitz (1934); Horse's Head with Pink Rose in *Life (February 1938); reproduced PM (June 1945). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1955
1955
1956
1958
1960–1961
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1966
1986
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Gerald Peters Gallery
1986–1987
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2016
Norton Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
2016–2017
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
Mrs. Charles H. Davis, New York (unknown date). The artist 1946; Estate of the artist 1986; Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation 1993, gifted 1994 to; LACMA.
(Source: LACMA, 2025)
© Museum Associates/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection Oct 06 2025
Source System ID
8789
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.
Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Keck: 1948. Keck August, 1954. Wax resin. cleaned" [not verified].
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