From February 15 through May 11, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present ‘Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George’ at the de Young Museum. The exhibition, which has been organized by the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY in association with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, is the first exhibition to explore Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of Lake George. Between 1918 and 1934, O’Keeffe would spend months at her husband Alfred Stieglitz’s family estate slightly north of Lake George Village. O’Keeffe’s paintings of the wooded, bucolic setting differ greatly from her well-known renderings of the sparse Southwestern landscape.

‘Modern Nature’ presents the artist’s full swath of works created during her time at Lake George. The exhibition features 53 works from public and private collections and includes botanical compositions of flowers and vegetables as well as still lifes and paintings of the trees that grew on the 36-acre estate. The exhibition also includes paintings of weathered barns and other structures as well as panoramic landscapes.

'Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George’ went on view at the Hyde Collection last year and was so well-received that the museum extended its hours of operation during the show’s final days.