Which painting did Georgia O’Keeffe create after seeing a ram’s skull in New Mexico?

Georgia O’Keeffe created Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills after finding a ram’s skull in New Mexico.

The 1935 painting combines a ram’s skull with a white hollyhock and distant New Mexico hills. O’Keeffe frequently collected animal bones and other objects from the desert, then transformed them into carefully arranged subjects. The skull is presented against a spacious landscape rather than as a simple scientific study.

The work belongs to O’Keeffe’s mature New Mexico period, when bones became recurring motifs in her art. It is sometimes confused with paintings that show only a skull or with her flower paintings, but the full title identifies all three major elements. O’Keeffe’s use of bones was not merely decorative: she described them as objects that seemed more alive and beautiful to her than living things in the desert.