Lake George

Artist Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887 - 1986)

Date1924

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 18 1/8 x 35 1/8 in. (46 x 89.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.97

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (113), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024 – present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 – May 1, 2022; “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13 – May 5, 2013; Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art and traveling, September 17, 2009 – January 17, 2010; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005; O’Keeffe and Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, January 27 – April 5, 1998; Of, For, and By Georgia O’Keeffe, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Conn., February 25 – May 4, 1994; Georgia O’Keeffe: 1887–1986, National Gallery of Art and traveling, November 1, 1987 – February 21, 1988.ProvenanceAlfred Stieglitz, New York Leopold Stieglitz (younger brother of Alfred), New York, c. 1925 Peggy Davidson Bodkin Murray (granddaughter of Leopold), gift, c. 1952 Acquired in 1986 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New YorkPublished ReferencesChave, Anne C., and Kathleen Monaghan, Of, For, and By Georgia O’Keeffe (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), 4 (ill.), 15. Costantino, Maria, Georgia O’Keeffe (New York: Brompton Books, 1994; Smithmark, 1995), 66–67 (ill., color). Cowart, Jack and Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1987), n.p. (ill., color, no. 43), 279 n. 32. Haskell, Barbara, ed., Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 90 (ill., color, pl. 79), 230. An Intimate Eye (2005), 4 (ill., color), 9. Lynes, Barbara Buhler, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1:256 (ill., color, no. 468) [incorrectly listed as collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Palmer]. McGrady, Patrick, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 120, 121 (ill., color). Muratori, Marisa, “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Lake George Years,” Adirondack Life, March–April 1989, 33 (ill., color) Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), viii, 4, 54, 55, 56-57, 198 (ill. 55, 54, 198). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 116-117 (ill.). Udall, Sharyn R., O’Keeffe and Texas (San Antonio: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1998), 28, 40 (ill., color), 113 (no. 10).