What is the title of Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1931 painting of a cow skull with red, white, and blue?

Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1931 painting of a cow skull with red, white, and blue is titled Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue. It is one of her best-known works based on bones found in the New Mexico landscape.

O’Keeffe began collecting animal bones during her visits to New Mexico and used them as subjects in paintings and drawings. The stark skull, set against a pale background and marked by the colors of the United States flag, combines a desert object with a distinctly American symbolic palette.

The work is sometimes confused with O’Keeffe’s Ram’s Head paintings, which also feature bones and desert imagery. Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue is specifically identified by the cow skull and the three national colors in its title.