Which Georgia O'Keeffe painting features a bleached skull and a red, white, and blue striped cloth?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue features a bleached skull and a striped cloth.

O'Keeffe painted Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue in 1931. The work places a large animal skull against a dark background, with a piece of red, white, and blue fabric passing through it. The stark arrangement transforms a found object into a powerful modernist image.

The painting reflects O'Keeffe’s fascination with bones collected in the New Mexico landscape. She did not treat them simply as symbols of death; she also valued their shapes, surfaces, and ability to suggest the vastness of the desert.

The title’s patriotic colors connect the object to the United States, but the painting is not a literal history scene. O'Keeffe created several works using bones, including ram skulls and pelvises, so the specific animal and title are important distinctions.