Relatively unknown outside of his homeland Akseli GallenKallela 18651931 was a leading figure in modern Finnish painting and the decorative arts. This publication focuses on four versions of his shimmering depictions of Lake Keitele 19045 showing them for the first time in the context of GallenKallelas output. It retraces through analysis of a dozen works from public and private Finnish collections the genesis of this particular stylized lake composition in the early 1880s and its persistenc