ECOMMERCE FOR GOOD - AMERICAN CHESTNUT TREE
Chestnutting by Winslow Homer. Circa 1870.
The American Chestnut tree was part of the everyday fabric of American Life before it became functionally extinct starting after 1900 due to an imported fungal blight.
This wood engraving on newsprint was created by Winslow Homer and published in the October 29, 1870, edition of Every Saturday: An Illustrated Journal of Choice Reading.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was an important American landscape painter and printmaker.
Homer often turned to scenes of rural life in farming areas of New England, with a fondness for depicting children at play and enjoying nature and the countryside. Occasionally, his subjects focused on chores that gave them an important role in the family and community – such as gathering chestnuts.
In the 1870’s, Homer observed that families living in the city depended on their children to help make ends meet, while in the rural areas, children interacted with nature and the seasons in performing tasks. Homer saw that children living in rural areas had more freedom. They were the hope for the future in Homer’s view, and that of America.
An original and complete copy of the October 29, 1870 edition of Every Saturday: An Illustrated Journal of Choice Reading can be found in the Buffalo River Co library.
We have archivally scanned our copy of the Chestnutting wood engraving on newsprint print. Our digital archivist has lightly restored and enhanced the images in preparation for printing your Giclee print order. We print the entire image as it was created many years ago. That means we also reproduce the artworks aged patina, subtle imperfections, and signs of aging.
Our Giclee prints are created to look like the original, as if you wandered into a vintage store and saw it hanging on the wall with an aged patina that only the vestige of time can impart … so that their timeless essence is evoked for display in your home, office, mountain cabin, or lake house.
The American Chestnut Series prints are part of our eCommerce for Good.
For each series print product purchased, On behalf of the purchaser, we will donate 50% of the purchase price to the New York Chapter of the American Chestnut Tree Foundation, which in turn supports fundraising for the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
The mission is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). The goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant trees back into forest ecosystems of the eastern United States.
A $30 Donation from the purchase price of each Fine Art Print (without frame)
A $50 Donation from the purchase price of each Framed Fine Art Print
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