What is the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1935 painting featuring a ram's skull, a white hollyhock, and desert hills?
Answer
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills
Georgia O'Keeffe's 1935 painting featuring a ram's skull, a white hollyhock, and desert hills is titled Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills.
The composition combines three motifs associated with O'Keeffe's New Mexico work: an animal bone, a flower, and distant hills. She arranged them in a dreamlike vertical image rather than presenting them at ordinary scale. The juxtaposition shows how O'Keeffe could treat natural objects as formal shapes while retaining their recognizable identities.
The work is sometimes mixed up with Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue because both paintings feature bones and belong to her New Mexico period. Their titles distinguish the subjects: one names a cow's skull and a flag-like background, while this painting names a ram's head, a hollyhock, and hills.