What is the title of Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1935 painting featuring a ram’s skull and white hollyhocks?

Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1935 painting featuring a ram’s skull and white hollyhocks is Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock-Hills. The composition combines a bleached animal skull with flowers and a distant New Mexico landscape.

O’Keeffe collected bones during walks in the desert and used them as recurring subjects. She was interested in their shapes, whiteness, and ability to suggest endurance rather than treating them only as symbols of death. The painting also places delicate flowers beside a hard, weathered object, a contrast common in discussions of her work.

The title is sometimes shortened in casual references, which can make it difficult to distinguish from O’Keeffe’s other skull paintings. The “Hollyhock-Hills” wording is part of the full title. The work belongs to the period when New Mexico had become central to her artistic vocabulary.