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| Hendrik Goltzius Lovers under a Tree ca. 1597-1600 chiaroscuro woodcut Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II Study of Tree Trunk ca. 1598-1608 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Tree Study with Figures ca. 1610 drawing British Museum |
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| Cornelis Vroom Trees behind a Wooden Fence ca. 1638-42 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Cornelis Vroom Forest Road ca. 1638-42 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Rembrandt The Three Trees 1643 etching Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jan Both Tall Tree before 1652 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| follower of Herman van Swanevelt Trees on a Rocky Outcrop before 1655 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jan Baptist Weenix Tree Study with Wagon before 1660 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jan Lievens Study of a Grove of Oak Trees before 1674 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anthonie Waterloo Tree overhanging a Pool before 1690 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anthonie Waterloo Woodland Scene before 1690 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Henricus Turken Group of Trees before 1856 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacobus van Looy Tree at Fasso before 1930 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Marinus Heijl Tree in Leaf before 1931 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Wim Steijn Tree Study 1954 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
The girl grew and grew, her mother couldn't stop it; it terrorized.
What would the finger-dance do? Kindergarten art a buffet of markers,
gluings of stuffs to seasonally-keyed paper, Elmer's pools drying clear.
A stapling and testing of cylinders versus spheres versus cubes
for kinetic and entropic possibilities, stuffing balled newspaper
into paper-bag dragons, two sweet silver elephants with heads too small
and trunks too long, situated off-center, snuffling flowers. And silver rain.
And 16 silver hearts stacked vertically and strips of masking tape, colored
in reverse rainbow. Unnameable tendrils diffusing to scribbles. A bird.
Another bird, more rain, peace signs, a horse with sideways-flowing mane,
and knowledge: that the sky's full of black-struck Ms and Ws, drifting
clouds; that her kitty cats watch sunsets; sky doesn't reach
down to meet the earth; mother shrinks to the size of a penis.
– Daisy Fried (2015)