The American Chestnut Tree
The American Chestnut Tree
Art that Funds Restoration
American Chestnut Tree
Museum-quality prints from 1845-1932 revealing American Chestnut heritage hiding in plain sight. Look closer. In Audubon's wildlife habitats. Winslow Homer's harvest scenes. Francis's domestic abundance. Artists created the essence of the world they lived in—and chestnuts were everywhere. One in four eastern trees, woven through every layer of daily life. Every purchase funds restoration.
eCommerce for Good
YOUR PURCHASE FUNDS RESTORATION
Each print purchase generates a $25 tax-deductible donation to American Chestnut Restoration, Inc. (ACR). Purchase two or more prints and become an ACR member. ACR directs 100% of donations as research grants to The American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project at SUNY ESF.
Chestnut Stand, Streets of N.Y.C. (1885)
Essence of an American Original
In 1856, Henry David Thoreau wrote of New York: "Large and plump ones roasting in the street and popping on the steps of banks and exchanges... All New York goes a-nutting. Chestnuts for cabmen and newsboys, for not only are squirrels alone to be fed." This was the world before the blight—chestnuts so woven into daily life that they appeared everywhere, in everything. The artists whose prints are featured in this eCommerce for Good collection captured that world. Within fifty years of the blight's arrival in 1904, nearly four billion trees were gone.