Which Georgia O'Keeffe painting was inspired by a ram's skull found in New Mexico?

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting inspired by a ram's skull found in New Mexico is Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills. Painted in 1935, it combines a large animal skull with a white hollyhock and a distant Southwestern landscape.

O'Keeffe frequently collected bones and other natural objects during her travels in New Mexico. She treated them as powerful forms, isolating them against broad skies and landscapes rather than presenting them as ordinary still-life details.

The painting belongs to a group of works in which bones became recurring subjects. O'Keeffe's bone imagery is often discussed alongside her paintings of flowers because both subjects use enlargement, close framing, and simplified shapes to direct attention to form.

The title is important: it distinguishes this work from other skull paintings such as Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue. The ram's skull and hollyhock are specific elements, not interchangeable symbols from her wider New Mexico series.