Sherrie Levine's "Horned Steer Skull" is a cast bronze work that exemplifies her practice of appropriation and recontextualization within art history. By casting a found natural object in precious metal, Levine elevates the skull from its original status as a biological artifact to a refined sculptural object, echoing both the memento mori tradition and Western modernist fascination with animal remains. The work engages with questions of originality and artistic transformation that have been central to Levine's conceptual practice since the 1980s.