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Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses

By: Georgia O'Keeffe
Date: 1931
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 91.4 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)
Location: Art Institute of Chicago

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.