AFA Summer 2018

Summer 100 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) From the Lake No. 3, 1924 Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bequest of Georgia O’Keeffe for the Alfred Stieglitz Collection (1987-70-2) After moving to New York in 1918, Georgia O’Keeffe began spending summers at Alfred Stieglitz’s family home on Lake George in upstate New York. From the Lake No. 3 is one of her most abstract paintings inspired by those surroundings. Abandoning traditional landscape elements such as the flat surface of the lake or a clear horizon, she embraced the colors in the earth, water, trees, and sky, evoking a sense of the place without depicting its literal qualities.