Saturday, March 31, 2012

is there anything as lovely as a tree

i found a postcard i'd souvenired from the art gallery of nsw

It's Harold Cazneaux's photograph taken in 1937, The spirit of endurance
A river red gun, with Wilpena Pound in the background.

In the circular way of fame, the tree Cazneaux considered iconic enough to photograph has now gained significance by being the tree he photographed.
It has a plaque, and is a "tourist stop".


It's also Significant Tree #239 on the National Trust of South Australia's list. 

I have a few favourite "art" trees

Albert Namatjira's many gums
Ghost Gum, 1948

White Gum

This one of Tacita Dean's Kotzsch Trees, 2008


Georgia O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree, 1929


I remember this painting (in the abstract) whenever I stand under a gum tree



someone else's photo of gum trees with the milky way

1 comment:

  1. trees are beautiful - whenever i drive down an avenue of gums, or look out at flood plains of river reds I remember dad...

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