The second instalment of our two-part series of tree paintings. On Friday we showed 20 paintings by women and today it’s the men’s turn. It is interesting to note the type of tree that is chosen as subject matter, and how they handle the respective rendering of these vegetative masterpieces.
1. Lucian Freud – Acacia, 1975
2. Wassily Kandinsky – Forest Edge, c.1903
3. Egon Schiele – Four Trees, 1917
4. J. M. W. Turner – Landscape with a Tree on the Right, c.1828
5. David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter, 2011
6. Blue Trees, Paul Gauguin, 1888
7. Albert Gleizes – The Tree, 1910
8. Caspar David Friedrich – Tree of Crows, c. 1822
9. Piet Mondrian – Grey Tree, 1911
10. Claude Monet – The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau, 1865
11. Thomas Baines – Baobab, 1861
12. Vincent van Gogh – Mulberry Tree, 1889
13. Rene Magritte – Le Seize Septembre, 1956
14. Henri Matisse – Trivaux Pond, c.1916
15. Klimt – Tree of Life, c.1909
16. Théodore Rousseau – Oak Grove, Apremont, 1850-52
17. Lawren Harris – Above Lake Superior, c.1922
18. Albert Namatjira – Twin Ghosts, c.1940
19. Asher B. Durand – In the Woods, 1855
20. Thom Thomson – West Wind, 1917
