Many admirers of fine nature art in Indiana and the Midwest know the distinctive, intricate, detailed, and beautiful paintings of Maryrose Wampler. Her work is found in homes, offices, and business establishments and has been displayed and sold by the best art galleries and print dealers. Her work was featured in "Wildflowers of Indiana" (Indiana University Press, 1988), a book that covered some 350 species of wildflowers and has been enormously popular. She has now produced a more ambitious volume dealing with an eclectic group of Indiana's trees. Each tree is presented in its natural setting in a small painting as a living totality. Small detailed paintings also present the flowers, fruit or nuts, leaves, and a winter twig for each of the depicted species. The careful, detail work is intended to depict the character or essence of the trees, and to be scientifically accurate. "Most people see a tree and think tree," says Maryrose Wampler. "But they are more than that. Now that I have studied them and painted them in detail, I see each species as a special plant." Fred Wampler has added a fascinating text for each tree, describing its properties, natural history, uses, and special features. "Trees of Indiana" is a book for art lovers and naturalists who want to become better acquainted with trees.
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Maryrose Wampler conducts classes in painting and maintains a private studio in Bloomington, Indiana. Besides her many commissioned works, she painted the illustrations for Wildflowers of Indiana (Indiana University Press, 1988).
Fred Wampler is a retired elementary school teacher. He has devoted much of his time to assisting Maryrose in finding specimens and in writing the text for this book, as he did for Wildflowers of Indiana.
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Beautifully illustrated with countless literal views of species and very detailed characterizations of the trees, bark, leaves and identity of our fine native Indiana trees. A great collaboration of writing and natural-looking illustration. If you are seeking expressive artistic representations of our Hoosier trees, this would not be your best book.
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