https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3662/fullThe Tree of Light or Blazing Tree1845[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@10cba]com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@10cbaInk, pencil, and gouache on paperOpaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing and pen and brown ink inscriptions on medium weight wove paper. Inscription on recto is nearly identical to that on another drawing by the same hand with the same title, owned by Hancock Shaker Village. Each is a distinctly individual work. The ink inscriptions on the verso are in the same hand in brown ink, not quite as carefully scribed as those on the recto: There is a small number 60 written in the lower right corner verso. The drawing appears to have been carefully planned in pencil, then drawn in opaque paint and inscribed in ink. The symmetry of the stylized trees is nearly perfect except for some irregularly slanted leaves long the trunk. Cohoon used thick, opaque colors which are granular in texture and have an irregular surface gloss, suggesting a modified watercolor, gouache or tempera medium. During drying, the media has quilted the paper very strongly (this aspect is very noticeable on the reverse), and in dryiung has cleaved quilted dramatically from the paper. The density and quality of the line in the branches suggests that the maker may have been less confident in this medium or lacked appropriate brushes. The palette used includes black and brown media for trunk and branches, two diffeent greens (a lighter, more transparent one applied beneath the darker opaque green leaves) and orange fringe applied to each leaf. A bright blue ultramarine line runs around the outside of the sheet, 1/4" wide, 1/8" from the edge. The blue line, though not present on Cohoon's "Tree of Light" from Hancock Shaker Village), is present on another Cohoon watercolor called "A Bower of Mulberry Trees, 1854". The greens and blues especially tested somewhat soluble in water.com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@415The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/objects/2373/rdf