Georgia O'Keeffe | Grey Tree, Lake George | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Grey Tree, Lake George

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Date: 1925

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 x 30in. (91.4 x 76.2cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1986

Accession Number: 1987.377.2

On view in Gallery 772

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Throughout the 1920s O'Keeffe spent several months of each year (from spring to fall) at the Stieglitz family estate in Lake George, New York. Trees—maples, pines, poplars, and birches—were abundant there. O'Keeffe portrayed them singly or in groves, and often reflected the changes of the seasons in their colors. When she later moved to New Mexico, trees—particularly yellow cottonwoods—were again a source of inspiration.

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Initialed (on verso, in center of five-pointed star, in graphite): OK
Exhibition History

¦Twenty Modern American Pictures¦ (selected by Samuel M. Kootz). Demotte, Inc, NY, March 16 – April 11, 1931, no. 14 (titled: The Maple) [not illustrated]

Madrid, Spain: Fundacion Juan March, February 8 - June 2, 2002. ¦Georgia O'Keeffe¦.
References

Fundación Juan March. Georgia O'Keeffe: Naturalezas Íntimas. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2002. Cat. no. 11, p. 33 (ill. in color).

Samuel M. Kootz. Modern American Painters. NY: Brewer & Warren, Inc., 1930. Illustrated (b&w) p. 43 (title: The Maple; Collection Alfred Stieglitz)