A sensitive aesthete with an eccentric personal style, Elisabeth Chant wore voluminous dresses made with brightly colored and embellished fabrics. In 1922, at the age of fifty-seven, the well-traveled Chant settled in Wilmington, North Carolina, a city she selected for its temperate climate. She spent the final twenty-five years of her bohemian life there, working as a multidisciplinary artist, passionate teacher, and arts advocate.
The location of her freshly painted Landscape with Trees has not been determined, and even though Chant decried Impressionism, the canvas displays some of the style’s main traits, namely significant impasto and the use of highlights.