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Untitled Painting “In The Shade of the Tree” by Francis Livingston - 25686
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sat, Sep 17th 2016, 2:19pm
A Taos Pueblo Indian, blanketed in colorful splendor, enjoying a moment of shade, evokes for the viewer what it must have been like to live at Taos Pueblo a couple hundred years ago before the intrusion of the hustle and bustle of the newcomers.
The magnificent manner in which the artist filled the canvas with a colorful cottonwood tree in its fall splendor, illustrates how small humans are in the overall scale of the land. The fall colors of the tree and hillside and the cleanliness of the land bring to mind the Natives' respect for Mother Nature-something lost in the 20th century's disposable lifestyle.