Art, Symbol & Imagination
Trees Walking
Great tree trunks rise above a dense, dark bank and a small stream or path. Their splayed roots resemble feet caught in mid-stride. Horton turns the wooded landscape into an animated presence through the arrangement of the trunks and sweeping black strokes.
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W. T. Horton. "Trees Walking" [printed contents title]. In A Book of Images, W. T. Horton; introduction by W. B. Yeats. Illustrated 1898 edition, supplied as a digital scan, 1898, Unicorn Press. Source scan leaf 29. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-trees-walking
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W. T. Horton. Trees Walking. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 29. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-trees-walking