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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Mountains to North – Autumn – Lake George, N.Y., 1922
Courtesy of Evansville Museum of Arts.
Image: okeeffe_CR389_mountains-to-north-autumn-lake-george-n-y_858960.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Mountains to North – Autumn – Lake George, N.Y., 1922
Oil on canvas, 8 x 23 inches
CR No. 389
From the Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, Evansville, Indiana
Oil on canvas, 8 x 23 inches
From the Collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, Evansville, Indiana
CR No. 389

Rolling blue and red mountains span the width of this dark composition. A dramatic, clouded sky in shades of blue and white sweeps overhead.

CR No. 389

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Mountains to North – Autumn – Lake George, N.Y.

Source of title: backing inscription 1.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Mountains to North – Autumn, Lake George

Alternate Title

Mountains to North – Autumn, Lake George, New York

Source of title: Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: "#6" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing: 1. "Mountains to North – Autumn – / Lake George, N.Y. / By Georgia O'Keeffe / for Alfred Stieglitz – Aug" (AS, AAP3, black ink) 2. Mountains to North – / Autumn, Lake George / 1922 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / for Stieglitz" (AS, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Donor purchased artwork from Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place, 509 Madison Avenue, New York.
(Source: Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 03 2025

Source System ID

8485

Other IDs

389, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

To better preserve the original An American Place backing featuring artist’s signatures, the backing has been separated from the painting and framed individually.