"Pelvis IV " by Georgia O'Keeffe is a famous painting in which she focuses on carcasses found in her favourite vacation getaway. Her obsession with the desiccated remains of animals spans the relics of horses, cattle, goats, along with any and everything unaltered.
Not even the humble bivalve, the clam, escaped her attention. Unfortunately, these bone paintings didn’t fit with New York critics’ stereotyped ideas of the female painter. The bones were termed “gruesome trophies” and often outright ignored in reviews. Due to her self-imposed isolation, O’Keeffe couldn’t fight all the misbranding. To her, the paintings weren’t morbid, but about an eternal beauty of the desert.
