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The Bee Tree

1930

Frank Wilcox

(American, 1887–1964)
Culture
America, Ohio, Cleveland
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 87.6 x 113 x 5.5 cm (34 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 102.2 cm (30 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Renee Zellner and purchase from the Dudley P. Allen Fund 2012.119
Copyright
© Wilcox Family Collection LLC
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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The artist represents himself as the young man straddling the tree in the center of the composition.

Description

Recalling an event that took place decades earlier during a family reunion on a farm in Brecksville, Ohio, this painting depicts the felling of a tree to extract a honeycomb in its trunk. The artist-who taught more than 40 years at his alma mater, the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art-presents himself as the young man straddling the tree in the center of the composition.
A horizontally oriented oil painting features twenty people with light skin tones gathered in a dark forest. In the lower center, a bright light within a hollow log illuminates the group from below. At left, a bearded man sits in the foreground, across from a man with his back to us on our right. In the background, women and children watch from among the dense trees as the scene recedes into shadow.

The Bee Tree

1930

Frank Wilcox

(American, 1887–1964)
America, Ohio, Cleveland

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