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| William Turner of Oxford Meadow Landscape with Dead Tree ca. 1825 watercolor on paper Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| A.E.G. Roelofs Tree Study 1808 drawing, with added watercolor Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Honoré Daumier Pauvre France! Le tronc est foudroyé mais les racines tiennent bon! 1870-71 lithograph Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Max Eckardt A Linden Root 1886 lithograph Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Alfred Capel Cure Oak struck by Lightning, Badger Hall, Shropshire 1856 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Alexandre Calame Fallen Tree ca. 1839-45 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Martin Hardie The Salt-Killed Tree, Blythburgh, Suffolk 1936 drypoint Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford Study of Ancient Tree before 1812 etching Tate Gallery |
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| Josef Sudek Blasted Tree 1975 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anna Ticho Tree before 1980 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Jonas Umbach Dead Tree with Hunter before 1693 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Rolf Brandt The Woodcutter chopping down the Tree 1945 gouache on paper (children's book illustration) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| André Kertész The Tree, Paris 1963 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paul Sandby Cart bearing a Tree Trunk ca. 1785 wash drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Raymond Coxon October - Tree Felling ca. 1940-50 lithograph Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Michael A. Smith Tree Stump along Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey 1985 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
from The Stump
Roots stiffen under the ground
and the frozen street, coiled around pipes and wires.
The stump is a platform of blond wood
in the gray winter. It is nearly level
with the snow that covers the little garden around it.
It is a door into the underground of old summers,
but if I bend down to it, I am lost
in crags and buttes of a harsh landscape
that goes on forever. When snow melts
the wood darkens into the ground;
rain and thawed snow move deeply into the stump,
backwards along the disused tunnels.
– Donald Hall (1964)