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Georgia O'Keeffe
Horse's Skull with Pink Rose, 1931
Courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR775_horses-skull-with-pink-rose_862849.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Horse's Skull with Pink Rose, 1931
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 775
Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
CR No. 775

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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Museum Associates/Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Last verified by current collection Oct 06 2025

Source System ID

8789

Other IDs

775, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

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

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.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Keck: 1948. Keck August, 1954. Wax resin. cleaned" [not verified].