Spring - Burning Trees in a Girdled Clearing, Western Scene, (painting).

Spring - Burning Trees in a Girdled Clearing, Western Scene, (painting).

Harvey, George, ca. 1800/01-1878, painter. (possibly by)

Gerry, Samuel Lancaster, 1813-1891, painter. (possibly by)

Harvey, George, ca. 1800/01-1878, painter. (copy after)

Spring - Burning Trees in a Girdled Clearing, Western Scene, (painting).

25 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. (65.4 x 51.5 cm)

Scene is a forest of dead trees with figures working in a clearing where the trees have been girdled (a strip of bark is cut around the tree to prevent the sap from ascending which eventually kills the tree and causes it to fall). A girdled tree is seen clearly in right foreground, the cut in its bark and the exposed roots, on the bank of a stream. Two trees are fallen at center: one still with its roots. A boy stands where the trees are crossed. A man stands holding an axe to one of the trees. Smoke rises from a fire at center and nearby are the oxen. Eventually the trees with be burnt. A building is behind the trees, in the distance.

Landscape -- Forest

Occupation -- Industry -- Lumber

Landscape -- Season -- Spring

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Accession Number: 1994.123

Formerly in the collection of Wetherbee, William, Boston, Massachusetts by 1847.

Wetherbee, C. B., Mrs., by 1859.

Argosy Book Store, New York, New York by 1993.

Gift of Milberg, Leonard L., Mr. & Mrs.,

National Academy of Design Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1842.

Possibly by George Harvey or by Samuel L. Gerry after George Harvey.

"American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 604.

"American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 604.

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