Paintings
Tamarisk Trees in Early Sunlight
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Guy 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.
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.
