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Tamarisk Trees in Early Sunlight
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Tamarisk Trees in Early Sunlight

Maker (American, 1867 - 1925)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Date1899-1912
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions24 × 29 in. (61 × 73.7 cm.)
SignedSigned lower right: "Guy Rose"
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Dr. James Zidell
Status
On view
Label TextGuy Rose, born in San Gabriel and a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement, spent much of his career in France. In 1904, he relocated to the village of Giverny, where he worked in a colony of American artists and befriended Claude Monet. Tamarisk
Trees in Early Sunlight shows his debt to the French Impressionists in the translucent, blue-green colors and the fluid brushwork, emphasizing the sinuous, back-lit forms of the Tamarisk trees—a species that grew on Monet’s property. The graphic flatness and shallow picture plane of Rose’s composition may be a technique also borrowed from Japanese woodblock prints, a source for many French and American Impressionists. Like Rose, the Tamarisk was a transatlantic traveler; native to Eurasia and Africa, it was introduced to the Americas in the 1800s, where in many regions it is now considered an ornamental but invasive species.
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