Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue
Georgia O’Keeffe (1931)
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue (1931) turns a sun‑bleached bovine skull into a <strong>modern American emblem</strong>, set against a tricolor field that quietly evokes the flag. The skull’s chalky surface becomes the composition’s <strong>white</strong>, framed by red side bands and a folded blue ground cleaved by a dark vertical bar, asserting <strong>resilience</strong> rather than morbidity <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
