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Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George Autumn, 1927
Couresty of Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George Autumn, 1927
Oil on canvas, 17 x 32 inches
CR No. 607
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1998.83
Oil on canvas, 17 x 32 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1998.83
CR No. 607

CR No. 607

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Lake George Autumn

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

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Autumn – Lake George

Lake George – Autumn

General Remarks

Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946" [note of inscriptions 1, 2]. Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Note: Dated by O'Keeffe in 1957. Betty Pilkington." Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1922. Stretcher inscription 1 and backing inscriptions 2, 3 date 1927. Dated 1927 on basis of inscriptions and inclusion in 1928 exhibition. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: 1. "Autumn – / Lake George 1927" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 2. "Glass & storage" (George Of, graphite) 3. "#5" (unidentified, graphite). Backing: 1. OK {circle} (graphite) 2. "Lake George – Autumn, 1927 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 3. "Lake George – Autumn / 1927 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) 4. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York"1 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

[1] Estate of the artist [1887–1986] (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA); [2] 1993, Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation (Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA); [3] 1998, purchased by Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and gift to Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
NOTES:
[1], [2] Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999), p. 355, cat. 607.
[3] Documentation in MAM object file
(Source: MAM, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Milwaukee Art Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025

Source System ID

8674

Other IDs

607, Catalogue Raisonné