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Pastel on paper, 17 x 27 1/2 inches (image) ^17 1/2 x 27 7/8 inches (sheet)
CR No. 396
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Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse in memory of E. Carter, Nancy Susan Reynolds, and Winifred Babcock
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In this semiabstract landscape, a still pond reflects blue mountains with a bright green and brown strip of land below. The land opens up, forming a circular, cave-like shape at the center of the composition. A narrow strip of bright blue sky is just barely visible above the mountains.
CR No. 396
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pool in the Woods, Lake George
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pool in Woods – Lake George
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Pool – Lake George
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Pond in Woods
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Pond in the Woods, Lake George
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. At Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature [notes backing inscription 1] Written by O'Keeffe. 'Walk in Lake George/Pond in Centre' [not verified] . . . . Note: O'Keeffe dates this 1922. See gallery photograph 2–f." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Sold by Halpert, April 1958." Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 13. Titled Walk in Lake George – Pond in Center by Stieglitz on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Pool in Woods – Lake George / (Paste) by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, AAP1, black ink) 2. "Room 1710 – 509 Madison Avenue / Pool – Lake George Room 1710 – 509 Madison Avenue" (AS, label, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Pastel
Materials
Pastel on paper
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Yokohama Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
1996–1997
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2017–2020
Brooklyn Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Reynolda House Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Peabody Essex Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
The Cleveland Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Wichita Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Nevada Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, New York, NY, 1958; ACA Galleries, New York, NY, before 1969; Harry Spiro, New York, NY, 1969; M. Knoedler, New York, NY, 1975; Barbara Babcock Millhouse, New York, NY, 1975 (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 03 2025
Source System ID
8491
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