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Lake George with Crows, 1921
Image: okeeffe_CR358_lake-george-with-crows_713786.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George with Crows, 1921
Oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 25 inches
CR No. 358
Oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 25 inches
CR No. 358

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

Estate of the artitst, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1993 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

8457

Other IDs

358, Catalogue Raisonné