Which artist created the 1936 painting Summer Days featuring a desert skull and flowers?

Georgia O'Keeffe created the 1936 painting Summer Days, which features a desert skull and flowers.

Summer Days belongs to O'Keeffe’s New Mexico body of work and combines a bleached animal skull with brightly colored flowers against a broad desert background. The juxtaposition of death, natural beauty, and intense light is characteristic of her approach to found objects and landscape.

O'Keeffe frequently collected bones and other objects while walking in the New Mexico landscape. She transformed them into carefully arranged subjects rather than treating them as ordinary still-life props. The skulls in her paintings are often associated with the arid environment, although the works are not straightforward illustrations of a single symbolic meaning.

The painting is sometimes confused with her other bone pictures, including Ram's Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills. Those works share motifs but have different titles, dates, and compositions.