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Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches
CR No. 881
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Roswell Museum and Art Center, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Marshall, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Winston
L.2024.4.1
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Painting of a Ram's skull floating on a white canvas with 2 large brown leaves floating below.
CR No. 881
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, backing inscription, 1937 New York (An American Place–O'Keeffe) exhibition checklist.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Sold. infor. fr. Downtown Gal, Oct. 1949." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Note: Belongs to Mrs. Courtland Barnes, N. York." Reproduced and titled Ram's Head and Autumn Leaves in Apollo (April 1938). See cat. nos. 848, 852, 2026. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: "Georgia O'Keeffe / Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves / $6000 [price] / $5000 [insurance valuation] / An American Place / Room 1710 – 509 Madison Ave – / New York" (Alfred Stieglitz, Whitney exhibition label, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1980–1981
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende (ngbk)
Kunstverein in Hamburg
1942–1943
1956
The work sold to Courtland Barns in 1949.
In 1955, the artist purchased the work from Barns through Downtown gallery
In 1957 was purchased by the Winston and Marshall group from Downtown Gallery and gifted to the Roswell Museum and Art Center.
(Source: Roswell Museum and Art Center, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/18/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 17 2025
Source System ID
8860
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