Which 1935 Georgia O'Keeffe painting features a ram's skull, hollyhocks, and hills?
Answer
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills is the 1935 Georgia O'Keeffe painting featuring a ram's skull, hollyhocks, and hills.
O'Keeffe made the painting in New Mexico, combining a ram's skull with white hollyhock flowers and a distant landscape. The arrangement brings together several recurring elements of her mature work: animal bones, flowers, and the open terrain of the American Southwest.
The skull is not simply a still-life object isolated from its surroundings. O'Keeffe places it prominently against the landscape, creating a layered image in which the foreground bone and distant hills occupy the same visual world. This combination helped make the painting a memorable example of her New Mexico period.
The work is sometimes confused with Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, another well-known painting of a bone. The animals, flowers, title, and color scheme distinguish the two compositions.