Eastern Landscape "A
Beauty Called Birch" ©
Acrylic
painting on 18 1/2" x 30 1/2" masonite board with beautiful
gold color frame $800.00
These fabled trees are treasured for much more than just their
distinctive bark. White birch bark has long played a useful role
in American lives. Some Indians traditionally covered canoes and
wigwams with it. Others used the bark for writing paper. Paper
birch has the widest distribution of the five trees that dominate
North America's assortment of birches. Modern canoes, of course,
are made of fiberglass or aluminum, not bark. But we encounter
birch wood in cheap, disposable items like toothpicks, clothespins
and newspaper.
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