Cherokee Dogwood - Brave- Blushing
by Jan Dappen
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36.000 x 12.000 x 1.500 inches
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Title
Cherokee Dogwood - Brave- Blushing
Artist
Jan Dappen
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is an image of an original oil painting 12 X 36 on canvas. Many thanks to Mike McGowan for allowing me to use his lovely photographs as a reference for this painting.Deservedly one of the most popular American Dogwoods, Cherokee Brave, it offers a bit of extra beauty for every season. Large red blooms, spring and fall foliage changes, and ornamental berries all contribute to its popularity as an understory or specimen tree in the landscape.
The foliage opens with burgundy and maroon tones overlaying the green. By summer it is entirely green and very dense, but it turns brilliant maroon again in autumn, remaining for weeks before dropping for winter. Very showy!
Fall color of the Cherokee Brave Dogwood is a consistent red to reddish purple. It is a small low-branched tree with horizontally spreading lines, and a layered effect, usually with a flat topped crown and often wider than high at maturity.
There Is A Legend
At the time of Crucifixion of Jesus, the dogwood had been the size of the oak and other forest trees. So firm and strong was the tree that it was chosen as the timber for the cross. To be used thus for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the tree, and Jesus nailed upon it, sensed this.
In His gentle pity for all sorrow and suffering Jesus said to the tree:
" Because of your regret and pity for My suffering, never again shall the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used as a cross. Henceforth it shall be slender and bent and twisted and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross--two long and two short petals. And in the center of the outer edge of each petal there will be nail prints, brown with rust and stained with red, and in the center of the flower will be a crown of thorns, and all who see it will remember."
Crucifix Glowing
The pink dogwood is said to be blushing
for shame because of the cruel purpose
which it served in the Crucifixion.
The weeping dogwood further symbolized the sorrow.
The red dogwood, called the Cherokee, bears
the color to remind us of the blood shed by our Savior.
An American Indian legend tells of a beautiful Cherokee princess who was slain by
the jealous brave whose suit she had refused. As the maiden lay dying, she picked up
a dogwood blossom and used it to soak up her blood. This is why there are stains on
the tips of each petal. The red dogwood, called the Cherokee, bears its color in
memory of the girl.
Since the late 1970s, a devastating disease called dogwood anthracnose has been
infecting dogwoods in North America. This fungal disease can kill a tree in as litt
le
as two to three years!
A North Carolina law protects wild dogwood trees from damage or removal.
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April 7th, 2015
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