AFA 22nd Anniversary

2022 Antiques & Fine Art 81 Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Cedar and Red Maple, Lake George, 1921. Oil on canvas, 18 x 14⅝ inches. Gift of Peter S. Lynch in memory of Carolyn A. Lynch (2018.72.3). Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. ©2021 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. I wish you could see the place here—there is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees—Sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces—it seems so perfect—but it is really lovely. — Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe spent the summers from 1918–1934 in Lake George, New York, at the family home of her husband and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Lake George was a place of deep inspiration for her. She often stayed on into the fall, painting the seasonal color shifts around the lake and reveling in the quiet after the summer tourists and the extended Stieglitz family had left. Her treatment of natural forms and unconventional contours in this work demonstrate how she abstracted, combined, and layered the landscape in ways that were unprecedented in American art at that time.