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| Henry Moore Two-Piece Mirror Knife-Edge 1976-77 plaster National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1943 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Camille Pissarro Harvest Scene ca. 1895 drawing (study for painting) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henry Moore Double Standing Figure 1950 bronze Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1948 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Camille Pissarro Apple Harvest 1895 drawing (study for painting) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henry Moore Fragment Figure 1957 bronze Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1949 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Camille Pissarro Faggot Bearers ca. 1895 drawing (study for painting) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henry Moore Reclining Figure 1951 bronze Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Camille Pissarro Illustration to Daphnis and Chloe ca. 1895 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henry Moore Sketch Model for Reclining Figure 1946 terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Camille Pissarro Illustration to Daphnis and Chloe ca. 1895 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henry Moore Woman Reading 1946 terracotta Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life 1962 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Camille Pissarro Watering Cows ca. 1895 drawing (study for painting) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
A parallel story occurred in my own life. Outside a dentist's office, towering above a row of parking spaces, there was a line of majestic white pines. The largest, at the end, truly enormous in girth and height, was being strangled by a vine, also well grown, that reached to the top of the tree and extended out some of its branches. I learned from a receptionist inside the building that the row of pines belonged not to the dentist's practice but to the property next door. I went up the driveway next door and knocked and rang, but there was no answer. I wanted to tell them they risked losing an exceptionally grand tree
and that the solution was simple, as I had recently found out from my reading about invasive plant species. There was no need to take down the vine. All one had to do was cut the vine at its base – the rest would take care of itself. At home, I tried to find a phone number for this residence, but eventually I gave up.
– Lydia Davis, from Into the Weeds (Yale University Press, 2025)