Spring Cherry Blossoms. Along with paper shopping bags, Jemison experimented with paintings on paper parasols. This one, “Spring Cherry Blossoms” from 2010, echoes his paper bag work “Cherry Shadows” of a favorite tree at Ganondagan. “An old cherry tree stood in my side yard,” he says. “It was in rough shape. People said I should take it down, but I loved the that tree and its blossoms in spring, not to mention the delicious cherries that were so hard to reach.” Both the paper bag (left) and this parasol are in the NMAI collection.


“Spring Cherry Blossoms,” G. Peter Jemison (Seneca), 2010, paper, wood and twine, ink drawing, 26". 26/9748


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