Sherman Rose Tree Garden

Details

Theodore Wores (1860-1939)
Sherman Rose Tree Garden
signed 'Theodore Wores.' (lower right)--inscribed 'The Bonafacio Garden/Monterey, Cal./in this garden is the/Sherman Rose tree' (on the reverse)
oil on board
9¼ x 12 1/8 in. (23.5 x 30.7 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner circa 1950.

Lot Essay

Legend tells us that, while stationed at Monterey Army Post in 1847-48, General William T. Sherman and his young lover planted a flowering yellow rose tree outside their adobe house. When Sherman moved on from Monterey, he made a promise to his lover that when the rose tree flowered, he would come back to her and they would be married.