Which museum acquired Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue.

The painting places a cow skull against a red, white, and blue background, transforming a weathered desert object into a stark American image. O'Keeffe collected bones during her travels in New Mexico and used them as recurring subjects. Their forms let her explore line, contour, space, and symbolic associations without treating them as ordinary still-life props.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired the work, making it part of one of the world's best-known encyclopedic art collections. O'Keeffe's bone paintings are sometimes described simply as Southwestern landscapes, but the skulls are close-up subjects in their own right. Other works in the series include Cow's Skull with Calico Roses and Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills.