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Oil on canvas, 30 x 16 inches
CR No. 877
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The long, narrow form of a tan mule's skull sits against a white surface. Two black and brown striped turkey feathers with white tips poke out from behind the skull, one at the bottom right and the other at the top left.
CR No. 877
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Mule's Skull with Turkey Feathers
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Horse's or Mule's Skull with Turkey Feathers
A Horse's or a Mule's Skull with Turkey Feathers
General Remarks
Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscription 1. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 notes, "Sold by Halpert . . . April 1952." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "New York – N.Y." (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink) 3. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe" 4. "Horse's or Mule's Skull / with Turkey Feathers / 1936 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) 5. Stamp: "Georgia O'Keeffe / An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York — N.Y." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
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)
1990–1991
Gerald Peters Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Gerald Peters Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Gerald Peters Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1943
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1952; Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, purchase, after 1966; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986; Private collection, Dallas, Texas, 1988; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8856
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