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Georgia O'Keeffe
Alligator Pear – No. 2, 1920–1921
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR337_alligator-pear-no-2_786496.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alligator Pear – No. 2, 1920–1921
Oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 18 inches
CR No. 337
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.90
Oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 18 inches
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.90
CR No. 337

Two green pears rest inside a brown basket with a large handle. The basket sits on a white doily, which, in turn, lies on a pink surface. The background is a plain white.

CR No. 337

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Alligator Pear – No. 2

Source of title: backing inscription 1.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. Stretcher inscription 1 may be date of preparatory work. Backing inscription dates 1921. O'Keeffe wrote: "I had an alligator–pears–in–a–large–dark–basket period. One painting is dark with a simplified white scalloped doily under the basket" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 31). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher:

  1. "Oct 30 - 20" (graphite) 2 [drawing of frame ] [illegible words] / Stieglitz [illegible words] no glass" (George Of, graphite) Backing:
  2. "1921 Alligator Pear - No 2 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite)
  3. OK О (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Estate of the artist, 1986
Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1993
Gift to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2006
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 10/29/2026

Source System ID

996

Other IDs

337, Catalogue Raisonné