Georgia O'Keeffe painted an important series of landscapes at Lake George.
O'Keeffe spent many summers at Lake George in the Adirondack region of New York. The lake was associated with the family of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and it became a major source of subjects during the 1920s and early 1930s. She painted trees, hills, water, leaves, barns, and other forms from the area.
Her Lake George works show that her art was not limited to flowers or New Mexico. She often reduced natural subjects to essential shapes, using close observation as a starting point for compositions that could feel abstract or symbolic.
Lake George is sometimes confused with the Great Lakes because both are prominent bodies of water. It is a long, narrow lake in upstate New York, within the Adirondack Mountains. The Lake George paintings form a distinct chapter before O'Keeffe’s permanent move to New Mexico.