The Gateway Gallery partners are painting an homage to the old masters for our July 10 reception. One of the images we were given as inspiration is 'Birch Trees at Dawn on Lake George' 1926 by Georgia O'Keeffe. (All of our references are in the Saint Louis Art Museum collection.)O'Keeffe painted the birch tree at Lake George many times. Ms. O'Keeffe lived in New York City and Lake George from 1918 - 1928. (She painted in Colorado in 1917 and first saw New Mexico that year.) The one in the SLAM collection is a summer image (shown here) and the other one I have seen reproduced is from autumn (White Birch, 1925). Her quote (my edit) about White Birch "A little way from the dock there was a big old birch tree with many trunks. I have painted its foliage green and have painted it yellow many times...The trunks were whitest in the early sunrise... The foliage a golden yellow with a few leaves standing out sharply here and there."
copyright 'Georgia O'Keeffe' 1976 the Viking Press
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