The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home by Jim Harrison PDF

By Jim Harrison

ISBN-10: 1611170494

ISBN-13: 9781611170498

With its fanlike evergreen fronds, tender trunk, and powerful root approach, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm which may bend with powerful sea breezes with no breaking or being uprooted. Emblematic of survival opposed to competition, the palmetto tree has captured the imaginations of South Carolinians for generations, showing at the country seal because the American Revolution and at the kingdom flag considering 1861. The palmetto used to be named South Carolina's authentic country tree through Governor Burnet R. Maybank in 1939, and in 1974 Governor John C. West commissioned acclaimed South Carolina artist Jim Harrison to color the reliable palmetto tree portrait for the country of South Carolina, a picture that embellishes the nation residence to at the present time. The Palmetto and Its South Carolina domestic showcases the undying, average fantastic thing about the kingdom tree in marshland and coastal landscapes within the well known Harrison style.

Appearing on glassware, stationery, jewellery, and plenty of different ornamental and useful gadgets, the palmetto tree is an omnipresent image in South Carolina tradition. For Harrison the palmetto is still greatest an icon of the wondrous Carolina coastal habitats. Sweeping pictures of the coast were a part of Harrison's artwork because the starting of his profession, and he keeps to demonstrate his love of the South Carolina coast by way of shooting the great thing about the nation tree amid the numerous wonderful and mesmerizing scenes integrated right here.

The Palmetto and Its South Carolina domestic additionally explores the old history of the tree and its many ties to South Carolina's background as an emblem of power and wonder helpful of this inventive celebration.

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