Which 1935 Georgia O’Keeffe painting combines a ram’s skull, hollyhocks, and a New Mexico landscape?

The 1935 painting combining a ram’s skull, hollyhocks, and a New Mexico landscape is Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock-Hills.

O’Keeffe made the painting during the period when animal bones and Southwestern scenery became prominent in her work. The ram’s skull is placed against a broad, luminous landscape, while white hollyhocks add a contrasting vertical floral form.

The work is often discussed alongside O’Keeffe’s other paintings of bones, flowers, and desert terrain. She collected bones during walks in New Mexico and treated them as carefully observed natural forms rather than merely as symbols of death. Their structure and whiteness also allowed her to explore scale, space, and color.

This title can be confused with Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue, another O’Keeffe painting centered on a bone. The specific combination of a ram’s skull, white hollyhocks, and hills identifies the 1935 work.