Artist Series LbNA #21151
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Add Location| Owner: | Puddle-Splasher  |
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| Plant date: | Mar 31, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fort Worth |
| County: | Tarrant |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Sara Karashin |
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| Last found: | Aug 11, 2018 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 13, 2015 |
This series of boxes is hidden in the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. Exit off I-30 onto University Blvd. going north and turn into the gardens at the first gate on your left. Follow the road until you reach the end (at a circle) and find a place to park. (There is additional parking in the lot by the Japanese Gardens). Boxes 1 and 2 are missing (retired) due to construction work, but #3 is still there.
Artist Series #1 - RETIRED, missing - Vincent’s Sunflowers
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” Vincent van Gogh
Vincent painted his famous Sunflowers series in 1888 after leaving his native Holland for the south of France with the dream of starting an artistic community. He began to paint sunflowers to decorate a bedroom for his friend Paul Gauguin. The series of paintings were made possible by the innovations in manufactured pigments in the 19th Century. Without the vibrancy of the new colors, such as chrome yellow, Van Gogh may never have achieved the intensity of Sunflowers. Okay folks…. get out your markers!
Clues:
Walk to the south end of the circle and find a small stone path leading into the meadow (through the salvias). Look to the southwest and locate the tall metal sunflower sculpture at the entrance to the Imagination Vegetable Garden. Facing the sunflower go left (south) and follow the fence around the perimeter of the garden. Standing at the southeast corner of the garden (closest to the freeway) you will see a very large multi-trunk tree off to the southwest about nine paces from the corner of the fence. Look inside the hollow in the tree under some bark for the box. Please recover well.
Artist Series #2 - RETIRED, missing - Monet’s Water Lilies (Replaced 4-19-08)
Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) shared a new approach to art with his friends in Paris - Renoir, Bazille and Sisley - which became known as impressionism, featuring open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes. In 1883, Monet moved to a house in Giverny where planted a large garden and created a water garden with an arched bridge over it. He spent his last thirty years there painting the scenes from his garden and attempting to capture on canvas the luminosity and transparency of the water lilies in his pond.
Clues:
Park in the same location as for Box #1. Go through the pavilion overlooking the rose gardens and take the staircase down on your right. Immediately at the bottom of the stairs, go through the gate to your right into the pond area. Following the stone path, take the right fork (you should see a trash receptacle straight ahead). Continue on the stone path that bears left and crosses a little stream. You'll soon see a series of steps that lead up to a sitting area with a non-functioning fountain. At the fountain, go six more paces up the trail keeping the little creek to your right. There you will see very large tree on your right, and the letterbox will be at the base of this tree on the opposite side from the trail.
Be sure to recover well with the bark because this hiding place can be seen from a little trail beside the creek below.
Artist Series #3 - O'Keeffe's Red Poppies
“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it, no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”. Georgia O’Keeffe, American Painter 1887-1986
Clues:
To find this letterbox, take the stairs down through the rose garden to the reflection pond with the large fountain in the center. Go past the pond, taking time to enjoy the wonderful turtles basking on the rocks in the sun. At the east end of the pond (heading toward University Blvd.) is an expansive meadow, lined with trees on either side. Continue to walk through this meadow until you’ve reach the fence separating the gardens from University Blvd. You may have noticed the trail to the left of the meadow (or chosen to walk on the trail if the grassy meadow was wet). The trail takes a sharp left turn at the fence. Just at the turn is a small tree with a cluster of trunks identified as a Possumhaw (Ilex deciduas). You will find the letterbox in this within this cluster of trunks.
Artist Series #1 - RETIRED, missing - Vincent’s Sunflowers
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” Vincent van Gogh
Vincent painted his famous Sunflowers series in 1888 after leaving his native Holland for the south of France with the dream of starting an artistic community. He began to paint sunflowers to decorate a bedroom for his friend Paul Gauguin. The series of paintings were made possible by the innovations in manufactured pigments in the 19th Century. Without the vibrancy of the new colors, such as chrome yellow, Van Gogh may never have achieved the intensity of Sunflowers. Okay folks…. get out your markers!
Clues:
Walk to the south end of the circle and find a small stone path leading into the meadow (through the salvias). Look to the southwest and locate the tall metal sunflower sculpture at the entrance to the Imagination Vegetable Garden. Facing the sunflower go left (south) and follow the fence around the perimeter of the garden. Standing at the southeast corner of the garden (closest to the freeway) you will see a very large multi-trunk tree off to the southwest about nine paces from the corner of the fence. Look inside the hollow in the tree under some bark for the box. Please recover well.
Artist Series #2 - RETIRED, missing - Monet’s Water Lilies (Replaced 4-19-08)
Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) shared a new approach to art with his friends in Paris - Renoir, Bazille and Sisley - which became known as impressionism, featuring open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes. In 1883, Monet moved to a house in Giverny where planted a large garden and created a water garden with an arched bridge over it. He spent his last thirty years there painting the scenes from his garden and attempting to capture on canvas the luminosity and transparency of the water lilies in his pond.
Clues:
Park in the same location as for Box #1. Go through the pavilion overlooking the rose gardens and take the staircase down on your right. Immediately at the bottom of the stairs, go through the gate to your right into the pond area. Following the stone path, take the right fork (you should see a trash receptacle straight ahead). Continue on the stone path that bears left and crosses a little stream. You'll soon see a series of steps that lead up to a sitting area with a non-functioning fountain. At the fountain, go six more paces up the trail keeping the little creek to your right. There you will see very large tree on your right, and the letterbox will be at the base of this tree on the opposite side from the trail.
Be sure to recover well with the bark because this hiding place can be seen from a little trail beside the creek below.
Artist Series #3 - O'Keeffe's Red Poppies
“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it, no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”. Georgia O’Keeffe, American Painter 1887-1986
Clues:
To find this letterbox, take the stairs down through the rose garden to the reflection pond with the large fountain in the center. Go past the pond, taking time to enjoy the wonderful turtles basking on the rocks in the sun. At the east end of the pond (heading toward University Blvd.) is an expansive meadow, lined with trees on either side. Continue to walk through this meadow until you’ve reach the fence separating the gardens from University Blvd. You may have noticed the trail to the left of the meadow (or chosen to walk on the trail if the grassy meadow was wet). The trail takes a sharp left turn at the fence. Just at the turn is a small tree with a cluster of trunks identified as a Possumhaw (Ilex deciduas). You will find the letterbox in this within this cluster of trunks.