Beech Leaves Leaving Gallery

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The Art of Beech Leaves Leaving
Gallery

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Transcendence
Geraldine Clarkson, British
Collage textile on board, 30" x 28" (w x h), 2022
NFS

Geraldine Clarkson is fascinated by transformation, changing the form of something.

"It's not turning something into something else, but changing how it appears, presenting it in a different form. This feeling for transformation found its first expression in childhood when, armed with a pair of scissors, glue and a pile of my mother's glossy magazines, I marched enthusiastically into the vast world of collage. It's only in recent years, though, that I'm discovering the creative power of fabric, and how perfectly it lends itself to transformation. And so remnants, scraps, cast-off clothes and worn-out but still-loved pieces of fabric take on a different form through collage and become art. And here I am again with the scissors and glue." - Geraldine Clarkson

See more of her art HERE.

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Beech Grove I
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Austrian
Oil on canvas, 39" x 39" (w x h), 1902
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

Beginning in the late 1890s Gustav Klimt took summer holidays with the Flöge family on the shores of Lake Attersee, the largest lake of the Salzkammergut region in Upper Austria. He painted many of his landscapes there. These landscapes are the only genre, aside from figure painting, that engaged Klimt. Because of his intense painting focus the locals called him the Forest Demon (Waldschrat).

Klimt's Attersee paintings merit notice. Formally, the landscapes are characterized by the same design and patterning as the figurative pieces. But space in the Attersee works is flattened to a single plane. It's quite possible that Klimt painted them while using a telescope, hence the flattened plane.

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Buchenwald / Beech Forest
Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938), German
Oil, circa 1900

Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the important representatives of German expressionism. He took up painting as a teenager while convalescing from an infection that was eventually to lead to the amputation of a leg in 1874. He began his formal artistic education in Berlin, before transferring, in 1870, to the Wiemar Academy.

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Old Beech Tree at the Edge of an Old Forest
Charles Brindley (1952- ), American
Oil on canvas, 24" x 18" (w x h), 2011

Charles Brindley lives and has a studio in Adairville, Tennessee, a small community 35 miles north of Nashville. In 1998 the Tennessee State Museum presented Landscape Vision: Works of Charles Brindley 1980-1997 and in 2007 the Evansville Museum organized an exhibit of his work spanning a twenty year period. His Trees of Myth & Legend, an exquisite brochure, is online as a PDF HERE. The artist's website is HERE.

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Der Buchenwald / The Beech Forest
Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), Swiss
Oil on canvas, 52" x 40" (w x h), 1885
Museum of Art Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland

Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism which he called parallelism. His art is on the Swiss 50 Franc banknote from 1911 Series Two, Der Holzfäller.

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Reflection Brooker Creek
Jeff Nabors, American
Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30" (w x h)
$2,045

Jeff Nabors is a BFA graduate of Ohio University. This is the fourth in a series of paintings he's creating inspired by the Brooker Creek Nature Preserve in Pinellas County, Florida. The artist's website is HERE.

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Autumn in Minnesota - A Walk in the Woods
Luiza Vizoli, American
Oil on cotton canvas
Private Collection
The artist's website is HERE.

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Wood with Beech Trees
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Gouache, watercolor on paper, 22" x 18" (w x h), 1899
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, Hague, Netherlands

After a strict Protestant upbringing, in 1892, Mondrian entered the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam. He was already qualified as a teacher. He began his career as a teacher in primary education, but he also practiced painting. Most of his work from this period is naturalistic or Impressionistic, consisting largely of landscapes. These pastoral images of his native country depict windmills, fields, and rivers, initially in the Dutch Impressionist manner of the Hague School and then in a variety of styles and techniques that attest to his search for a personal style. These paintings are representational, and they illustrate the influence that various artistic movements had on Mondrian, including pointillism and the vivid colors of Fauvism. In 1893 he had his first exhibition. This painting was painted in 1899 many years before his journey onto abstract geometric art.