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Title
Take A Seat
Artist
Terry Rowe
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Take a Seat. One Windsor chair sits in a garden pavilion, the sun and shadows adding to the scenery of the valley outside. Take a seat, rest, and contemplate the light over the valley.
This picture was taken in a garden pavilion in the terraced vegetable garden of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The vegetable garden evolved over many years, beginning in 1770 when crops were first cultivated along the contours of the slope. Terracing was introduced in 1806, and by 1812, gardening activity was at its peak. The 1,000-foot-long terrace, or garden plateau, was literally hewed from the side of the mountain with slave labor, and it was supported by a massive stone wall that stood over twelve feet in its highest section. One contemporary visitor remarked on the dramatic "sea view" across the rolling Piedmont countryside.
Perched atop the wall, at the half-way point of the garden, is the garden pavilion with its double-sash windows, Chinese railing, and pyramidal roof. The pavilion was used by Jefferson as a quiet retreat where he could read in the evening. It was reputedly blown down in a violent wind storm in the late 1820's. The pavilion was reconstructed in 1984 based on Jefferson's notes and archaeological excavations. It overlooks an eight-acre orchard of 300 trees, a vineyard, and Monticello's berry squares, which are plots of figs, currants, gooseberries, and raspberries.
I hope you will consider acquiring one of my photographs for your personal enjoyment or as a gift.
Please feel free to share any of my art works with family and friends by forwarding the link. If you are on Facebook, please visit my page, tART - Photography & Art by Terry Rowe, https://www.facebook.com/tarrowe. Thank you for visiting and viewing my work!
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December 14th, 2014
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Palm Beach Gardens, FL - United States
Love the light and composition on this beautiful piece. Congratulations on your sale Terry!
Brookeville, MD - United States
Terry, I absolutely love, love, love this amazing work of art ... incredible work with light and shadow ... beautiful composition ... a story-teller for sure!!! Wow!!!!! l/f and tweeted
Omaha, NE - United States
What a view! Love the tones and simplicity of this image. Congratulations on your win in the in-house Chairs contest at WFS this week.
Iola, WI - United States
Congrats on your contest win! Love the patterns made by the windows and the shadows! L&F
Monee, IL - United States
Outstanding capture Terry! Congratulations on your WFS In-House Contest Win! L&F
Allentown, PA - United States
Terry, Congratulations on your IN-HOUSE CONTEST WINNERS FOR CHAIRS ! Nice capture of this windsor chair with the beautiful sunlight/shadows and views through the windows. L
Cambridge, ON - Canada
Now that's a chair with a view, Terry!!! What a fantastic place to sit with the sunshine flooding in! Wish you luck in the WFS in-house contest! L/F
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