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.
trees
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.
Stag-head oaks that have lost their crown, fallen branches, a small flourish of leaves, a massive trunk that has lost its roots, remains left after felling, the destruction of wildfires and warfare.
From his fine realism of 1858, through sinuous trees above Bordighera, to his first series of poplars near his home in Giverny and on the River Epte.
Influenced by Corot, late in his career he painted several views of an avenue of poplars in the village of Moret-cur-Loing, forming an unusual series shown here.
