Ronald Wang

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Measurements120.0 × 60.0 cm

Kaliyangku

MAGNOLIA X SOULANGIANA

Chestnut Tree in Blossom via Vincent van Gogh

The Incantation (The Holy Wood), 1891, Paul Serusier

Ecological thinning trial in river red gum forests, Murray Valley National Park. Photo: Emma Gorrod

Recent scientific studies have described a decline in the health of river red gum forests. Given ongoing river regulation and the likelihood of future droughts resulting from climate change, NSW National Parks has worked with the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) Science Division to compose an experimental design and monitoring plan that seeks to determine whether reducing tree density leads to improved health and biodiversity.

Eastern purple coneflower——-A popular  perennial with smooth, 2-5 ft. stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. Rough, scattered leaves that become small toward the top of the stem. Flowers occur singly atop the stems and have domed, purplish-brown, spiny centers and drooping, lavender rays. An attractive  perennial with purple (rarely white), drooping rays surrounding a spiny, brownish central disk.

Echinacea purpurea

Travels of a bee

Elbrus. Moonlit Night via Arkhip Kuindzhi

Size: 55.4x36.5 cm

Japanese snowball trees (Viburnum plicatum) are likely to win a gardener’s heart with their lacy white globes of flower clusters hanging heavy on the branches in spring.

Chinese Snowball Viburnum macrocephalum 'Sterile'

Beautiful, huge and full Hydrangea-like blooms adorn the Chinese Snowball Bush for several weeks from early spring. Starting as small clusters of green buds, the blossoms mark the end of cold weather. 

Philip Stapp, Picture in Your Mind, 1948

Sent by the U.S. government as a participant in the Marshall Plan with a specific mission to assist the French in re-gearing their animation studios, Stapp discovered a Europe much-decimated by war, but in further danger of annihilation by nuclear weapons. Returning to the U.S., he produced this alarming-yet-hopeful film, replete with its lonely, Tanguy-inspired landscapes peopled with static figures casting long shadows across charcoal-colored plains. While taking the risk of leaning a bit toward didacticism, Stapp managed to urgently convey the thought that world destruction was not necessarily inevitable, provided that people embrace, rather than reject their cultural and racial differences. ‘Picture’ is a unique document resulting from the sometimes dreamy, sometimes nightmarish vision of the artist in a war-torn land, with the spectre of death hovering ever-so-slightly ahead. 

Kilian Donahue Clematis  Clematis 'Kilian Donahue'

Peonies by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Modern and Contemporary Art

Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1993 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY