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| Benjamin Zager Imaginative Tree 1938 watercolor Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Joseph Yoakum A Patch of Mayple Trees, Gonziere Park at Spokane, Washington 1972 drawing (felt pens) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alfred Wallis Through the Trees 1940 oil on board Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| William Sommer Tree with Rooftop before 1949 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Tree and Picket Fence 1918 watercolor on paper Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Joan Mitchell Trees III 1992 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Joann Middleton Tree ca. 1970 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Katsushika Hokusai Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom ca. 1801-1805 color woodblock print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Sidney Gausden Old Trees ca. 1920-25 color woodblock print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Wanda Gág Giddy Tree 1927 watercolor Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Lyonel Feininger Fir Trees 1918 woodcut Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Jean Dubuffet Tree 1964 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Arthur Dove House with Trees 1934 watercolor Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Clarence Holbrook Carter Olive Trees, Capri 1932 aquatint Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Georg Baselitz The Tree 2006 etching, drypoint and aquatint Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Ruth Asawa Plane Tree 1965 lithograph Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
from Castle Woods, Dinefwr
Most things have hidden roots, why not piety, that crow's wing.
I bought a card at a shop, mailed it to my brother.
He asked nothing of me. Did you imagine some greater riddle,
then. A spindle whorl. A spool. Dog rose in flower at the Tywi's
edge. You may make an image if you like. The sheep do it.
Ants do it in and through their labors, their chemical mazes.
It is time, my friend said, to reckon our exhaustion, to tote it up.
That is, after all, what math is for, its foolproof schematic.
– G.C. Waldrep (2020)