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Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves, 1936
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves, 1936
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches
CR No. 881
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
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches
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
CR No. 881

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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/18/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 17 2025

Source System ID

8860

Other IDs

881, Catalogue Raisonné