Some of the most beautiful things in this country were never meant to be famous. A wood silo at sunrise. A weathered barn at the end of a gravel road. A grandmother's hands kneading bread before the rest of the house woke up. Gary L Hightshoe drew this Iowa farmstead in 1972 — captivated by the wood silo, the kind built of redwood or fir staves with encircling cables, popular on Midwest farms from the 1880s through the 1930s and now all but vanished. Well, I'll Be Barned. This T-Shirt is for the quiet beauty of the places that raised us, the relics of an America that was gentler and slower, and the soft acknowledgment that some things are worth remembering exactly the way they were.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
Some of the most beautiful things in this country were never meant to be famous. A wood silo at sunrise. A weathered barn at the end of a gravel road. A grandmother's hands kneading bread before the rest of the house woke up. Gary L Hightshoe drew this Iowa farmstead in 1972 — captivated by the wood silo, the kind built of redwood or fir staves with encircling cables, popular on Midwest farms from the 1880s through the 1930s and now all but vanished. Well, I'll Be Barned. This T-Shirt is for the quiet beauty of the places that raised us, the relics of an America that was gentler and slower, and the soft acknowledgment that some things are worth remembering exactly the way they were.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
