What is the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1931 painting featuring a cow's skull against the American flag's colors?

Georgia O'Keeffe's 1931 painting featuring a cow's skull in flag colors is titled Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue.

The work combines a stark animal bone with a red, white, and blue background, creating an image that can be read as both a still life and a symbolic American statement. O'Keeffe found bones and other objects in the New Mexico desert and often isolated them against broad fields of color.

The painting belongs to a group of works in which O'Keeffe turned desert remains into monumental forms. She did not treat the skull simply as a macabre object; its weathered shape offered an abstract structure and a link to the landscape she had come to value.

This title is sometimes shortened informally to Cow's Skull, but the full title is important because it identifies the painting's specific color scheme. It should also not be confused with her many paintings of ram's skulls and other bones.