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Klimt made his landscapes on holiday. Each summer he left Vienna for the Attersee, a lake in the Austrian Alps, and painted the grounds of a lakeside castle where he was staying. This is a stand of trees there, though he pushed it almost to abstraction. The canvas is nearly filled top to bottom with a dense, flickering screen of green dots, thousands of small strokes, and only a thin strip along the bottom lets you see trunks and grass and know you are looking at a park at all. He painted it around 1909. Decades later, in 1957, it became the first major work by Klimt to enter an American public museum, at a time when he was still barely known there.