Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Trees (New World)

Asher Brown Durand
A Sycamore Tree, Plaatekill Clove
ca. 1858
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

Frederick Frank Durand
Through the Trees
1865
watercolor
Yale University Art Gallery

Robert Swain Gifford
Old Trees at Naushon Island
1864
etching
Art Institute of Chicago

Robert Swain Gifford
Near the Coast
ca. 1885
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William J. Forsyth
Trees and Fence
ca. 1892-93
drawing
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Theodore Eitel
Untitled
ca. 1915
carbon print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Theodore Eitel
Untitled
ca. 1915
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Childe Hassam
Road to Promised Land
1928
etching
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Childe Hassam
The Big Horse Chestnut Tree, Easthampton
1928
etching
Yale University Art Gallery

Walter Leroy Flint
Two White Trees
1933
linocut
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

George Ault
Old House, New Moon
1943
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

Nancy Newhall
Untitled (Tree)
ca. 1955
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Don Worth
Aspens, Autumn, New Mexico
1958
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Don Worth
Oak Leaves and Pine Trees, Oakhurst, California
1968
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

George A. Tice
Oak Tree, Holmdel, New Jersey
1970
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Joel Sternfeld
The General Sherman Tree,
Sequoia National Park, California

1994
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Snow

Snow is what it does.
It falls and it stays and it goes.
It melts and it is here somewhere.
We all will get there.

– Frederick Seidel (2012)