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The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
The West Wind is a 1917 painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson.An iconic image, the pine tree at its centre has been described as growing "in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees". [1]
Krummholz Pinus albicaulis in Wenatchee National Forest Wind-sculpted krummholz trees, Ona Beach, Oregon. Krummholz (German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" and Holz, "wood") — also called knieholz ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds.
The removal of trees at a forest's edge increases the exposure of the remaining trees to the wind. Trees that grow adjacent to lakes or other natural forest edges, or in exposed situations such as hill sides, develop greater rooting strength through growth feedback with wind movement, i.e. 'adaptive' or 'acclimative' growth.
Trees and Undergrowth: 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Paris 46.5 x 55.5cm F 309a JH 1312 Undergrowth: 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Paris 46 x 38cm F 308 JH 1313 Trees in a Field on a Sunny Day: 1887 Private collection Paris 37 x 45.5cm F 291 JH 1314 Path in the Woods: 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Paris 46 x 38.5cm F 309 JH 1315
A Wind-Beaten Tree or A Windswept Tree is an oil painting created in August 1883 by Vincent van Gogh. [1] It was painted early in his artistic career, whilst he was living in The Hague . [ 2 ] It was stolen from a private collection in Zurich in 1997 and has not been recovered.
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List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number. While more accurate dating of Van Gogh's work is often difficult.