Art & Soul Short #35
Tree. Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880–1946 Huntington, New York) 1935. Watercolor, tempera, and ink on paper. 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm). Alfred Stieglitz Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art open access. Growing Blue There is the growing up and the growing down. Trees do. We do. There is also a growing out and growing in. A tree is nourished by, and holds, unseen forces. Taken in. Drawn upward. Feeding, storing, restoring. Its foliage unfurls from spring