Stieglitz Series > Lake George

Lake George

In the late 1880s, Alfred Stieglitz’s father bought a large property on Lake George in upstate New York, a popular resort area for upper-class New Yorkers. While Stieglitz’s parents and siblings spent their summers at the lakeside villa, Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe stayed at a farmhouse on the estate. The property was a constant in his life, serving as a retreat from the bustle of New York City and a source of lasting inspiration.

 

Country life agreed with Stieglitz. “The lake is perhaps my oldest friend,” he wrote to Sherwood Anderson in 1924. “Gosh! what days & nights we’ve had together. On & in & every which way. Calm beautiful hours. Mad ecstatic ones.— Dream hours.— Hours & days of quiet wonder. Ever the same lake & hills and never a moment of deadness.”[1]

 

Photographs taken by Stieglitz at Lake George include early images of his daughter, Kitty, as well as later, mature work such as his Equivalents and his many portraits of O’Keeffe and Rebecca Strand. He also traced the changes of the seasons and the effect of time, as can be seen in his photographs of the aging trees on the property, which seem to be reminders of his own mortality. He did much of his printing there as well, bringing photographic supplies from the city and working in the kitchen, a small barn, and even outdoors.

 

 

[1] Alfred Stieglitz to Sherwood Anderson, Aug. 7, 1924, Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe Archive, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, box 2, folder 29.

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Equivalent, 1923

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Ma, 1915/17

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Lake George, Oaklawn, 1912/13

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Georgia Engelhard, 1920

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Waldo Frank, 1920

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Katharine Dudley, 1922

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Gable and Apples, 1922

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Poplars—Lake George, 1935

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The Old Maple—Lake George, 1926

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Tree Set 3, c. 1924

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Hedwig Stieglitz, 1921/22

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

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Rainbow, 1920

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Barn, Lake George, 1936

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Georgia O’Keeffe, 1933

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Georgia O’Keeffe, 1922

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Georgia O’Keeffe, 1922

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Georgia O’Keeffe—Hands, 1920/22

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Georgia O’Keeffe, 1922

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House and Grape Leaves, 1934

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House and Grape Leaves, 1934

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Lake George, 1922

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Car 2F-77-77, 1935

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Lake George from the Hill, 1932

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Grass and Frost, 1934

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First Snow and the Little House, 1923

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The Dying Chestnut, 1919

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Door to Kitchen, Lake George, 1934

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The Dancing Trees, 1922

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Poplars—Lake George, 1932

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Lake George, c. 1922

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Music – A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. II, 1922

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Alfred Stieglitz

Window: Wood, Glass, Snow, 1923

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Alfred Stieglitz

Grass and Flagpole, 1933

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Grass, 1933

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Barn—Lake George, 1922

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Hedge and Grasses – Lake George, 1933

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The Dying Chestnut Tree—My Teacher, 1927

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Equivalent, c. 1929

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AIC_1949-792_T
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Equivalent, 1931

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AIC_1949-793_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1924

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AIC_1949-794_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Spiritual America: Songs of the Sky A1, 1923

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Equivalent, 1930

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AIC_1949-797_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set E (Print 2), 1923

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Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set E (Print 1), 1923

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Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set E (Print 3), 1923

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Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1923

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Equivalent, 1929

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AIC_1949-802_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1925

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Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1925

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AIC_1949-804_T
Alfred Stieglitz

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Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1926

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Equivalent, 1930

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1927

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Equivalent, 1926

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Equivalent, 1927

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AIC_1949-811_T
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Equivalent, 1929

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AIC_1949-812_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, 1925

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AIC_1949-813_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 1), 1929

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AIC_1949-814_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 2), 1929

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AIC_1949-815_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 3), 1929

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AIC_1949-816_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 5), 1929

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AIC_1949-817_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 4), 1929

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AIC_1949-818_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 7), 1929

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AIC_1949-819_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 8), 1929

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AIC_1949-820_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 6), 1929

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AIC_1949-837_T
Alfred Stieglitz

Spring – The Child, 1901

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