Monday, August 28, 2023

Trees (paired)

Olympe Aguado
Tree in the Bois de Boulogne
1856
waxed paper negative
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Olympe Aguado
Tree in the Bois de Boulogne
1856
albumen silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Benjamin Brecknell Turner
Hedgerow Trees, Clerkenleap
ca. 1852
calotype paper negative
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Benjamin Brecknell Turner
Hedgerow Trees, Clerkenleap
1852
salted paper print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Thomas Frederick Collier
Study of a Chestnut Tree
1855
watercolor
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Thomas Frederick Collier
Study of an Elm Tree
ca. 1860
watercolor
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Ingeborg Tyssen
Gladesville, Sydney
1981
inkjet print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

David Wadelton
Preston Tree
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Paul Cézanne
Pistachio Tree at Château Noir
ca. 1900
watercolor
Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Demuth
Trees No. 2
1916
watercolor
Princeton University Art Museum

William Blake
A Poison Tree
(Songs of Innocence and Experience)
1794
color-printed and hand-colored relief-etching
Yale Center for British Art

William Blake
A Poison Tree
(Songs of Innocence and Experience)
ca. 1825
color-printed and hand-colored relief-etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Adolph Engel
Set Pieces of Greenery for Puppet Theater
ca. 1890
hand-colored lithograph
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Julius Hermann Oehme
Oak Trees - Scenery for Puppet Theater
before 1880
hand-colored lithograph
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

John Constable
Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree
ca. 1821
oil on paper
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Lucian Freud
After Constable's Elm
2003
etching
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

from Paired Things

So many paired things seem odd.

– Kay Ryan (1994)