GLENS FALLS, NY.- Due to anticipated crowds on the two final days of the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition at The Hyde Collection, Museum hours have been extended to 10am – 6pm on Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15, 2013.

Modern Nature is the first to explore the formative influence of Lake George on the art and life of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). From 1918 until 1934, O’Keeffe lived for part of each year at Alfred Stieglitz’s (1864-1946) family estate on Lake George in New York’s Adirondack Park. The property was situated just north of Lake George Village along the western shoreline. It served as a rural retreat for the artist, providing the basic materials for her art, while evoking the spirit of place that was essential to O’Keeffe’s modern approach to the natural world. During this highly productive period she created more than 200 paintings on canvas and paper in addition to sketches and pastels, making her Lake George years among the most prolific and transformative of her seven-decade career. This period also coincided with O’Keeffe’s first critical success and emergence as a professional artist.

During the years 1918 to 1934, Georgia O’Keeffe left the bustle and heat of New York City and headed for the pristine, mountain-rimmed waters of Lake George where her companion, and later husband, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), and his family kept a summer home. Comprised of thirty-six bucolic acres located a mile north of Lake George village on the western shoreline, their country retreat known as “the Hill” was a former farm and contained a large farmhouse and a number of barns and outbuildings. Today, the property is a residential subdivision and is identified with a historic marker at the foot of the hill.

The exhibition will travel to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe from October 4, 2013 – January 26, 2014, and to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum from February 15 – May 11, 2014.