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Georgia O'Keeffe
From the Lake, No. 3, 1924
Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
From the Lake, No. 3, 1924
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
CR No. 471
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe for the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1987
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe for the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1987
CR No. 471

Rippling green, white, and orange forms edged with black flow over the canvas. Clusters of small geometric forms in the same color palette punctuate the work's smooth surface.

CR No. 471

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

From the Lake, No. 3

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

From the Lake – No. 3

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

From the Lake

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

From the Lake No. III

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Pictured in 1935 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 58. Reproduced and titled From the Lake, in The Chicago Evening Post (March 1926); Under Water, Lake George in New York Herald Tribune (January 1935); Abstraction No. 3 in Meeting of East and West (1947). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher:

  1. "O #18" (GO, green crayon)
  2. 30 x 36 St / [initials in circle followed by a drawing of frame] basswood" (GO, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

In the artist's collection; The Georgia O'Keeffe Estate, 1986; bequest to Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987
(Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Aug 06 2025

Source System ID

8557

Other IDs

471, Catalogue Raisonné