Georgia O Keeffe's Lake George Reflection

The piece titled Painted Circa 1921-22, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Reflection, the most ambitious in scale of her works from the 1920s, is a meditation on the sublime, building upon the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River School artists who sought to capture the drama and beauty of the unspoiled landscape surrounding Lake George. The painting “Painted circa” look at the angle horizontally, the painting exemplifies the boldly colorful landscapes which foreshadowing the abstracted paintings of the New Mexico hills from her later years. As the vertically, as Lake George Reflection was first exhibited in 1923 at the Anderson Galleries, the infinite horizon shifts to a powerful vertical thrust, with the formerly symmetrical reflections of the landscape
Over the next decade O’Keeffe and Stieglitz work to together on this piece of art, this lake of Stieglitz family is where they get inspiration from. Stieglitz wrote that he too endeavored to ‘put her feelings into form” (B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe, 2001, pp. 26-27). O’Keeffe’s works from this period, writing, “Manipulation of scale, depictions of fragments, precise lines and blurred edges, bold colors, all of these devices are used to create works that are emotional equivalents for her experiences. There are also value, tints and gradient describing the work of her like the blue that blend to white, also she showing us variety of color not only blue. These are devices that can also elicit feelings of uncertainty, awe, and even terror in the spectator, whether one is looking at a close-up view of a flower or the splitting darkness of the Black Place. As a vertical work, the painting most closely relates to her magnified flower