Canadian painter of First Nations peoples, villages and the trees of British Columbia from 1898 to the 1940s. Unique swirling and dancing trees.
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From 1908 he became almost blind in his right eye, and had difficulty distinguishing colours. Evidence in his paintings up to 1925 shows how difficult his art became as a result.
London plane trees, a fig, the famous limes of Unter den Linden in Berlin, and Dutch elms in Amsterdam. City boulevards brought to life by their trees.
The statues of Memnon near Luxor, threshing grain, a belly-dancer and carpet merchant, views of the city of Cairo and the pyramids of Giza.
From the Book of the Dead, funerary portraits in encaustics, to imagined scenes in biblical times. Then seen by those who visited, from 1842 onwards.
It has been claimed that he had xanthopsia, tinting what he saw with yellow. While there’s no medical evidence to support that, what his paintings from 1888 tell us?
A huge area of ancient mixed deciduous woodland south-east of Paris. Centre of the Barbizon School and an early playground for the French Impressionists who followed.
In just over a decade, his watercolour landscapes rivalled those of his contemporary JMW Turner. What could he have achieved had he not died at the age of only 27?
How chronic problems with the tear duct of his right eye drove Pissarro from painting landscapes outdoors to painting cityscapes from hotel rooms.
In older paintings, they’re a symbol of Egypt, but when artists travelled more in the 19th century they became fairly popular in landscape paintings. Examples from 1500 to 1927.
