New York inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of Lake George.
Lake George is in the Adirondack region of New York, where O'Keeffe spent time with Alfred Stieglitz's family. From the 1910s through the 1920s, she painted the lake, surrounding vegetation, hills, and seasonal changes. These works include landscapes, still lifes, and close observations of natural forms.
Lake George paintings belong to an earlier part of O'Keeffe's career, before New Mexico became her dominant setting. They are sometimes overlooked because her later desert imagery is more strongly associated with her name. The lake itself is not in New Mexico or New England: it is a long, narrow body of water in northeastern New York, and its wooded environment gave O'Keeffe a different set of colors and shapes from the Southwest.