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Georgia O'Keeffe
Horizontal Horse's or Mule's Skull with Feather, 1936
Couresty of Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Horizontal Horse's or Mule's Skull with Feather, 1936
Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
CR No. 878
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1998.84
Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1998.84
CR No. 878

CR No. 878

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Horizontal Horse's or Mule's Skull with Feather

Source of title: backing inscription 1.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Same Skull with Turkey Feather

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Mule's Skull with Turkey Feather

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Horse's or Mule's Skull with Turkey Feather

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Horizontal Horses or Mule's Head Skull with Feather" {"Head" crossed out} (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

[1] Estate of the artist [1887–1986] (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA); [2] 1993, Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation (Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA); [3] 1998, purchased by Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and gift to Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
NOTES:
[1], [2] Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999), p. 545, cat. 878.
[3] Documentation in MAM object file
(Source: MAM, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Milwaukee Art Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025

Source System ID

8857

Other IDs

878, Catalogue Raisonné