The Wild Treasury of Nature
A Portrait of Little St. Simons Island
Title Details
Pages: 128
Illustrations: 88 color images
Trim size: 11.000in x 9.000in
Formats
Hardcover
Pub Date: 03/01/2016
ISBN: 9-780-8203-4887-2
List Price: $34.95
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Published with the generous support of Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
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ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
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• Learn more about Little St. Simons Island at the New Georgia Encyclopedia
The Wild Treasury of Nature
A Portrait of Little St. Simons Island
Visually stunning paintings of the dynamic natural environments that make—and continually remake—an island
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The fifty-two paintings gathered here reveal as never before the wild beauty of Little St. Simons, an undeveloped barrier island on the Georgia coast. In showing us the island’s marshes and tidal creeks, shrublands and forests, and dunes and beaches, artist Philip Juras helps us understand the natural and historical forces continually at work on this unique place.
The Wild Treasury of Nature continues Juras’s exploration of the presettlement wilderness of the American South as the earliest naturalists would have encountered it. Strikingly composed and executed, Juras’s island paintings are based on extensive research and many hours spent at the sites he documents. From the contours of a pristine landscape down to the shape and color of its smallest plant, each scene is a historically and ecologically credible rendering of a place that has remained miraculously unspoiled.
The writings that accompany Juras’s paintings describe the natural history and unique cultural past of Little St. Simons in particular and the southern barrier islands in general, place the artwork within the American landscape painting tradition, and underscore the importance of vigilant stewardship for the island and the few remaining American places like it.
—Wendy Paulson, from the foreword
—Jessica Smith, Flagpole
—Melissa Tufts, Northeast Georgia Living
Kevin Grogan
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
Janice Simon