Alligator Pears, 1923
Alligator Pears, 1923
Oil on canvas, 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Private Collection
Loan, private collection
L.1998.19.1
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Small vertical canvas of two very green pears, placed in a bed of green folds.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
419
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Sretcher:1. O'Keeffe" (unidentified hand, black ink)
2. "St"(GO, graphite)
Verso:
1. another work, see cat. no. 332
2. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink)
Provenance
(Alfred Stieglitz, New York, N.Y.) Paul Rosenfeld, New York, N.Y., 1920s Estate of Paul Rosenfeld, 1946 Edna Bryner (Mrs. Arthur) Schwab, New York, N.Y., bequest, 1946 (The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Harold Goldsmith, New York, N.Y., 1946 The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1959 Private collection, Syosset, N.Y., 1961 (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.)Exhibition History
1924 New York (Anderson), nos. 1-7, as Alligator Pears1986 San Francisco, no. 17
1992 Williamstown, no. 12
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Extended Loan, Private Collection
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