Lake George was a major subject of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings from the 1920s.
O'Keeffe spent time at the Stieglitz family’s property on Lake George in the Adirondack region of New York. Between visits to New York City and other locations, she painted the lake, surrounding hills, trees, flowers, vegetables, and small natural forms found around the property.
These works are important because they show that O'Keeffe's art was not exclusively Southwestern. Lake George supplied a different visual environment from New Mexico: wooded slopes, changing seasons, water, and cultivated garden subjects. She transformed these ordinary forms through close observation and simplified design.
The lake should not be confused with Lake Champlain or with the New Mexico landscapes that later became her best-known setting. Lake George paintings belong especially to the period when O'Keeffe divided her time between Stieglitz’s New York circle and the family retreat in upstate New York.