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Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George Autumn, 1922
Image: okeeffe_CR392_lake-george-autumn_824286.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George Autumn, 1922
Oil on canvas, 15 x 27 inches
CR No. 392
Oil on canvas, 15 x 27 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 392

Orange, yellow, and red trees line the bottom of this composition. The dark blue form of a large mountain range looms above the trees. A light blue sky is visible above the mountains.

CR No. 392

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Lake George Autumn

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

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Lake George, Autumn

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Lake George – Autumn

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946" [note of backing inscription]. Whitney Archive indicates, "Note: This was in O'Keeffe exhibition at Anderson Gals, Jan.–Feb. 1923. . . . Therefore I am dating this picture ab. 1922." Backing inscription dates 1922 and 1927. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date c. 1922. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1922. Dated 1922 on basis on inclusion in 1923 New York (Anderson) exhibition; pictured in Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 18. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: "Lake George / Autumn / 1927 1922 {"1927" {crossed out} [crossing out and "1922" by Doris Bry, black ink] (Andrew Droth, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(Doris Bry, New York, NY); Private collection, Riverdale, New York, 1972; (Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

8488

Other IDs

392, Catalogue Raisonné