Bcow S Skull With Calico Roses

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses

by: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE - THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Date: 1931
Original Medium: Oil on canvas
Original Size: 36 × 24 in.

Georgia O’Keeffe collected this cow’s skull in New Mexico. The calico roses, used to decorate graves there, evoke questions of life, death, and mortality.