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Oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 25 inches
CR No. 358
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A lake stretches across the center of this semiabstract, aerial view of Lake George. Land in tones of brown and gray, dotted with trees, wraps around the lake. Three black birds fly across the lake. A gray, cloudy sky is visible in the distance.
CR No. 358
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Lake George with Crows
Source of title: backing inscription 1, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature [note of backing inscription 1]. See gallery photograph, 4–g." Abiquiú Notebooks notes backing inscription 2. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date c. 1921. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 15. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Lake George with Crows" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) 3. "Box 39 / on 7" (Doris Bry, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1946
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1966
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1988–1990
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection
IBM Gallery of Science and Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1998
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2001–2002
National Museum of Women in the Arts
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Vancouver Art Gallery
New Mexico Museum of Art
2003–2004
2007–2008
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
High Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Centre Georges Pompidou
Fondation Beyeler
Estate of the artitst, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1993 (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8457
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