AFA Autumn 2019

Antiques & Fine Art 77 2019 Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Cedar and Red Maple, Lake George, 1921. Oil on canvas, 18½ x 15 inches. Peabody Essex Museum; Gift of Peter S. Lynch in memory of Carolyn Lynch (2018.72.3). © 2019 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. O’Keeffe regularly spent summers in Lake George, New York, at the family home of her husband and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. She loved to depict the lake in the fall, reveling in the seasonal color shifts and quiet after the summer tourists had left. O’Keeffe’s treatment of natural forms and unconventional contours in this painting demonstrate how she abstracted, combined, and layered the landscape in ways that were unprecedented in American art at that time.