Lake George inspired many Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and drawings.
O'Keeffe spent part of her summers at the Stieglitz family property on Lake George in the Adirondack region of New York. Between the 1910s and 1930s, the lake and its surroundings supplied recurring subjects, including leaves, trees, hills, fruit, and water.
Her Lake George works show how she transformed familiar natural objects into simplified, strongly composed forms. They are important because they connect her early abstract experiments with the recognizable natural subjects that became a major part of her public reputation.
Lake George is sometimes overshadowed by her later association with New Mexico. However, the lake was one of the most significant recurring locations in her earlier career and remained part of the story of her artistic development.