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Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George, 1922
Image: okeeffe_CR391_lake-george_794033.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George, 1922
Oil on canvas, 18 x 32 inches
CR No. 391
Oil on canvas, 18 x 32 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 391

A lake with a white beach stretches across the foreground of the work. In the distance, brown and green mountains rise against a gray sky filled with rippling clouds.

CR No. 391

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Lake George

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "See gallery photograph 4–k. Note: O'Keeffe told me she meant to paint some more on this but it was sold before she had a chance to really finish it." Whitney Archive dates 1922. Downtown Gallery Archive dates c. 1921 and 1922. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1922. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 15. Reproduced in The Arts (October 1923). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(Alfred Stieglitz, New York, NY); Edgar Levy, New York, NY, 1925; Descended in family; Richard L. Feigen & Co., Inc., New York, NY, 1965; Private collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965; (Guggenheim, Asher Associates, Inc., New York, NY); Christie's, New York, NY, sale no. 5272, lot no. 300, 1 June 1983 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

8487

Other IDs

391, Catalogue Raisonné