Friday, August 25, 2023

Trees (etiolated)

Michael Kenna
Thin Tree, Kraków, Poland
1989
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

Barry Underwood
Little Blue Tree
2006
C-print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Max Klinger
Flowering Tree in the Sun
ca. 1890
drawing
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Arnold Newman
Tree and Wall, Philadelphia
1941
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Tom Young
Tree Veil
2003
inkjet print
Denver Art Museum

Eliot Porter
Redbud Tree in Bottomland
near Red River Gorge, Kentucky

1968
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Clara Epstein
Trees in Wind
before 1923
etching
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Simone Nieweg
Young Beech Tree Grove, Essen
2000
C-print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Donald Ross
Trees, Yugoslavia
1970
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Josef Sudek
Small Tree in Winter
ca. 1938
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Alfred Stieglitz
Tree in Snow, New York City
ca. 1900-1902
lantern slide
Art Institute of Chicago

Frederick H. Hollyer
Small Tree
ca. 1860-90
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Consuelo Kanaga
Ice Storm
before 1978
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Georges Seurat
Poplars
ca. 1883-84
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous Convict at Norfolk
Pine Tree
1793
drawing, with watercolor
Yale Center for British Art

Edward Lear
Avenue of Trees
1867
drawing, with watercolor
Yale Center for British Art

Happiness

A state you must dare not enter
   with hope of staying,
quicksand in the marshes, and all

the roads leading to a castle
   that doesn't exist.
But there it is, as promised,

with its perfect bridge above
   the crocodiles,
and its doors forever open.

– Stephen Dunn (1988)