Word: dogwood
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk...