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Artist Series Two LbNA #28460

Owner:Puddle-Splasher
Plant date:Jan 26, 2007
Location:
City:Grapevine
County:Tarrant
State:Texas
Boxes:4
Found by: tx trekkers (4)
Last found:Jan 4, 2014
Status:FaFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jan 26, 2007
This is the second group in a series of Artist themed boxes. The first set is hidden at the FW Botanical Gardens, and this series of four stamps is hidden in Oak Grove Park on the south side of Lake Grapevine. Off Dove Loop, take Oak Grove to the Acorn Woods Recreational Area at the corner of Oak Grove and Acorn Loop. Pull in and park on the right side of the lot. As you stand looking back towards the entrance to the parking lot, take the cement path to your left (south). This is a well traveled path, so please make sure no one is coming before seeking or replacing the boxes, and make sure they are recovered with the rocks so they will not be discovered!

Artist Series #4 - Chagall’s Bonjour Paris

Russian born Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985) took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes reflecting his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall involved himself in large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings. If you have visited Lincoln Center in NYC, there are huge mosiac murals of his work in the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera, and the United Nations Headquarters has a Chagall stained glass on display.
Chagall's works fit into several modern art categories. He took part in the movements of the Paris art world which preceded World War I and was involved with avant-garde currents. However, his work always found itself on the margins of these movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism.

Clues:
Take the cement path going south from the parking lot. When you cross over the first bridge, you will see a park bench on your right. Continue until you come to a second bridge. Just before you cross the bridge, go around the stone column on your left and go about five steps towards the creek to the large oak tree. At the base of this tree, under some rocks is the Bonjour Paris letterbox.

Artist Series #5 – Picasso’s Petite Fleur

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 - 1993) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispín Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.

Clues:
After rehiding the first letterbox, continue on the path crossing the bridge and then two more bridges (for a total of four bridges from the beginning of the trail). Just after you cross over the fourth bridge, you will see a second park bench on your right. From the yellow pole at the end of the bridge, count eight painted yellow stripes in the middle of the path. Standing on the eighth stripe, look to your left for a large tree about five steps off the path. You will find the box under rocks at the base of the tree.

Artist Series #6 – Dali’s The Persistence of Time

Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) was a Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. He is considered to be the Father of Surrealism. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy-Award nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003.

Clues:
After rehiding the second letterbox, continue up the path paying attention to the yellow stripes. Very soon you will come to a long, solid yellow stripe. At the end of the long stripe, count two more short stripes and look to your right for a lone cedar tree with a small path leading to it. Wedged into the branches of the cedar is the Persistence of Time letterbox.

Artist Series #7 – Munch’s The Scream

Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art.
The Scream (1893; originally called Despair), Munch's best-known painting, is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy. As with many of his works, he painted several versions of it.

Clues:
After rehiding the third letterbox, continue up the path. Very soon you will come to an old rusty pipe on your left (there will be a green pipe on your right). Continue up the trail until the yellow stripes become solid again. From the beginning of the solid yellow stripe, continue approximately twenty steps and look to your left for a fallen tree trunk broken in half. Take approximately ten steps toward that fallen trunk. Look to your right for a tree with rocks at its base. Under the rocks you will find The Scream letterbox. *Note: there are a few brambles around the tree, so be careful so you don’t scream.