Georgia O'Keeffe spent summers painting at Lake George from 1918. The lake, in the Adirondack region of New York, was associated with the family estate of Alfred Stieglitz and became an important setting for O'Keeffe's work during the late 1910s and 1920s.
At Lake George, O'Keeffe painted landscapes, plants, barns, trees, and other subjects drawn from her surroundings. These works show how she could move between recognizable observation and increasingly simplified or abstract forms. The location therefore belongs to an important transitional period in her career.
Lake George is sometimes confused with New Mexico, where O'Keeffe later developed another major body of work. She began visiting New Mexico in the 1920s, but the Lake George paintings came earlier and reflect a different environment. The two regions remained central, contrasting sources of imagery in accounts of her artistic development.