About This Artwork

Georgia O'Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, 1931

Oil on canvas
91.4 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1947.712

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture, 1862-1932, October 31, 1932-January 31, 1933, no. 76.

Art Institute of Chicago, Georgia O’Keeffe, January 21-February 22, 1943, cat. by Daniel Catton Rich, no. 45 (ill. p. 34).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, 291 and After, July 1-November 1, 1944.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe, May 14-August 25, 1946, no. 43.

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Georgia O’Keefe & Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs, December 12, 1992-April 4, 1993, cat. by Alexandra Arrowsmith and Thomas West, eds., ill. p. 113; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Arts, April 27- June 26, 1993; Minneapolis, July 17-September 12, 1993; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, October 2-December 5, 1993.

ASAHI Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan for the "Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago" exhibition. Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka 4/20/94-5/29/94; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya 6/10/94-7/24/94; Yokahama Museum of Art 8/6/94-9/25/94

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, January 28-April 22, 2001, no. 174, cat. by Sarah Greenough (National Gallery of Art/Bullfinch Press).

Milwaukee Art Museum and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes: The Artist’s Collection, May 5-August 19, 2001, no. 56, cat. by Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman; traveled to Santa Fe, September 14, 2001-January 13, 2002; Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February 8-May 20, 2002.

Publication History

Georgia O'Keeffe, James Warren Lane, and Leo Katz, The Work of Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portfolio of Twelve Paintings (Dial Press, 1939), n. pag.

Daniel Catton Rich, Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 37 (February 1943), p. 19.

-----. “The Stieglitz Collection,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 18 (November 15, 1949) ill. front cover.

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1961, p. 346

Ownership History

Given by the artist to the Art Institute through the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1947.