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Georgia O'Keeffe. Alligator Pear - No. 2, 1920-1921. Oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 18 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe), Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.90]
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.
As O’Keeffe remarked of this painting in 1976: “I had an alligator pears in large dark basket period. One painting is dark with a simplified white scalloped doily under the basket.” “Alligator pears,” or avocados, were a relatively rare fruit in 1920s New York. The Museum is fortunate to possess two versions of this subject—paintings of identical size and similar composition. Both works are distinguished by O’Keeffe’s use of pink and grey, colors that accentuate the green of the fruit and the brown of the basket in an overall decorative fashion. It is the differences between the two, however, that reveal the most about O’Keeffe’s approach to representation. While details such as the scalloped silhouette of the white doily and the weave of the basket (through which light passes on the right) have been retained in this painting, such particulars have been eliminated in the simplified forms of the other work.
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