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Accession #	1992.11.28
Artist	Georgia O'Keeffe
Title	Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills (Ram's Head and White Hollyhock, New Mexico)
Date	1935
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	30 x 36in. (76.2 x 91.4cm) frame: 37 x 43 x 2 in. (94 x 109.2 x 5.1 cm)
Credit Line	Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Location	American Identities: Inventing American Landscape

Curatorial Remarks: In this surreal image, a ram’s skull and single hollyhock blossom assume monumental presence, floating mysteriously against cloudy skies and above a sweeping, undulant landscape that makes up the immediate foreground. Georgia O’Keeffe first traveled to New Mexico in 1929; soon thereafter she began collecting animal skulls and bones, motifs to which she returned repeatedly throughout her career. This painting marked a new direction for O’Keeffe’s evolving modernist style when it was exhibited in 1936 at photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s New York–based gallery, An American Place.