#chestnut trees

[vintage-ukraine]

Kyiv Chestnut Trees by Oleksii Shovkunenko, 1970s

[ming85]

Vancouver, 2026

[impressionim-paintings]

Stairway at Auvers

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, United States

[galleryofart]

The Muses

Artist: Maurice Denis (French, 1870-1943)

Date: 1893

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Description

In the guise of women dressed in contemporary clothing, Maurice Denis updates a subject taken from classical mythology – the muses who inspire the arts and sciences. But he transforms the theme profoundly, stripping the muses of the traditional attributes which allow them to be identified.

In the group of three women sitting in the foreground we can see the figure of Marthe, whom the painter married in June 1893 and who inspired his art until her death. In a device common in Denis' work, she is shown twice: in profile in red and from the back, sitting on the chair. Maurice Denis has set the scene on the terrace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the town where he lived all his life.

The century-old chestnut trees give the composition rhythm and decorative power. The regular strokes of the tree trunks are a pretext for a play of vertical lines which contrast with the curves and ornamental arabesques of the branches, the leaves stretched on the ground, and the patterns and folds of the dresses.

[gettothedancing]

Mare aux Châtaigniers à Dullin Savoie (Pool at the Chestnut Grove in Dullin, Savoy), 1914, François Cachoud (French, 1866-1943) (x)

[inklingowl]

Genetically engineered chestnut tree, grown in Syracuse, moves one step closer to release

SUNY ESF's transgenic American chestnut tree could help save the tree from the brink of extinction.

That's pretty exciting!

[greencheekconure27]

The chestnut trees in my garden are blooming and I miss Kyiv all of sudden....

[kinasecrystal]

Wow! I knew that there were efforts ongoing, but this is the first solid timeline I’ve heard - we are just 10 years from staring to reforest the Appalachian mountains with blight-resistant ~American chestnuts, beginning to undo one of the greatest environmental disasters of the last century. If I understand correctly, these hybrids have been selectively bred for generations with the remaining wild American chestnut trees (they will sprout and even flower, but they die young from the blight) until the only observable Chinese chestnut trait left is the blight resistance. The growth habit, leaves, and seed size look exactly like the Native American tree and the hope is that they’ll adopt the same ecological niche as the old American chestnuts (which the Chinese chestnut trees will not).