Which Georgia O'Keeffe painting features a white skull and red, white, and blue stripes?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s painting featuring a white cow skull and red, white, and blue stripes is Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue. She painted it in 1931, using a bleached animal bone against a distinctly American color arrangement.

The work belongs to O'Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings, in which bones collected from the desert became recurring subjects. She treated the skull as both a physical object and a strong formal shape, emphasizing its curves, openings, and silhouette. The flag-associated colors add national symbolism without turning the image into a literal flag scene.

O'Keeffe’s bones have sometimes been interpreted only as symbols of death, but she resisted narrow explanations of her imagery. She was interested in their beauty, structure, and relationship to the New Mexico landscape. The exact title is important because several of her paintings feature skulls, including works involving ram and horse bones.