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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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.
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 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.
From about 1896, he got out and painted the countryside when on holiday each summer with his partner’s family. Here are some of his paintings of dense woodland and forests.
Two species are the pioneers, in the high Arctic and mountains across Europe. Their bark has formed canoes, and their sap is a sugary syrup that can be fermented into alcoholic drinks.
Paintings by Paul Signac, Evelyn De Morgan, Marsden Hartley, Tom Thomson, Egon Schiele, Julian Onderdonk, Paul Nash, and others.
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Inness, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Alfred Sisley, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, William Merritt Chase, and others.
Scots pines from Northern Europe, a huge umbrella pine in Saint-Tropez, and maritime pines from the Mediterranean coast, painted by Théo van Rysselberghe among others.
Portraits by Sisley, Delacroix, Cabanel, Piet Mondrian early in his career, William Morris Hunt, Astrup, Schwabe, and Claude Monet.
