Fine art- a window into the past of our veteran trees

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I would never have thought that arboriculture would lead me to an appreciation of mycology, even less to an appreciation of the fine landscape painters of history. I can see this becoming a new personal journey of discovery and learning, so i thought i would share this interesting subject with all of you. Lets see what we can all find and add to these wonderful oportunities to get a good glimpse of how trees looked hundreds of years ago, how they might have been managed and offering a glimpse of how highly valued they where within the landscape of our beautiful country, and others too:001_cool:

 

all art counts here, and suspect there will be much in old tapestries

 

I will start with a few Ive found tonight, begining with a painting called-

 

"under the hawthorn" big isnt it!

 

 

 

 

[Xerxses]

Intresting view to gather knowledge. I have recently taken a intrest in old b/w-pics from the town im working in as a way of dating some of the trees.

I found a picture of a limetree, that I had to fell due to extensive whiterot, when it was planted around 1905!

[chris cnc]

great post, i'm gonna dig out some pics, do you mind me posting more "contemporary" art?

[SJH]

Great thread, trees appear in alot of art, and Japanese art has some very beautiful examples of trees in art.

I quite like these pictures, by American artists, mainly because of the way the trees help frame the picture.

 

 

this one is an etching by Ralf M Pearson.

 

 

this one is by Edward Hicks

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

great post, i'm gonna dig out some pics, do you mind me posting more "contemporary" art?

 

wouldnt realy be in keeping with the theme though chris!

 

Im more looking at windows into the past, realist paintings and tapestries:001_tt2:

[Ben Ballard]

nice thread hama i always enjoy trees in art and history here is a warter colour of some elms i was given the artist is unknown

[David Humphries]

Cough, cough, yawn, yawn......................there all a bunch of tree killing neanderthals Tony. I wouldn't bother

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/2874-trees-painted-british-landscape.html

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Cough, cough, yawn, yawn......................there all a bunch of tree killing neanderthals Tony. I wouldn't bother

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/2874-trees-painted-british-landscape.html

 

 

 

 

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hello stranger, was worried about you, been too quiet around here, wot ya been doing then?

 

as for the thread, great minds think alike!

[Graham]

From the greatest painter of light ever; JMW Turner. Trees at Mortlake.

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

From the greatest painter of light ever; JMW Turner. Trees at Mortlake.

 

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Nice one graham, are they covered in Ivy or do you think that bul;ge is a graft line? hard to see:001_smile: