Cook Pine Number Two (Donald Lee)

This is a hard pastel drawing of a Cook pine done in three vertical wood panels. Each panel is 16"x20". The total dimension of the drawing is 16" by 60". The Cook pine species is over 200 million years old, older then the dinosaurs. Donald's Cook pine drawing is a rendition of the tree's primitive architecture - columnar silhouette, geometric tiered branching and prehistoric foliage - using the gestural lines and abstract construction method developed in his Abstract Characters work.