Oak Grove, Ivan Shishkin.
On Wikipaintings. Large version here.
Original is in the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art.
See my previous Eye Candy post of a Shishkin forest scene (presumably in the same oak forest) and my post on Ivan Shishkin.
Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s Oak Grove
He was such a master at conveying the ‘power’ and mass of the oak.
Thanks, Charley.
Bill
Here is link to a digitally restored photograph of ‘giant’ Russian landscape painter ????? ????????? ???????, who lends his name to a minor planet (3558 Shishkin 1978 SQ2): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Ivan_Shishkin_restoration.jpg?uselang=ru
Thanks Aelle. For comparison, here is his portrait by fellow painter Ivan Kramskoy: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/03/27/ivan-nikolaevich-kramskoy/
Wonderful.