Tree and Rock

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

An upright brown boulder forms the nexus of Tree and Rock ; blue-green waves splash against it, and slender trees seem to grow from it. Maurer, an avant-garde American painter, lived in France until 1914 and painted his gemlike landscapes mostly in the Champagne region. He engaged the Fauvist idiom to reveal how color could function as light and to draw attention beyond concrete appearances and toward the sensations that nature aroused in him.

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