Lynn Geesaman Trees, Dartmoor, England 1991 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Helen Hoppin Provincetown Trees before 1924 drawing Milwaukee Art Museum |
Walter Leistikow Group of Trees ca. 1896 drypoint Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Auguste Lepère L'Abreuvoir 1910 woodcut Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Jan Lievens Forest Scene with Four Great Oaks before 1674 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Louis-Antoine-Léon Riesener Trees by a Pond ca. 1853-78 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Benjamin West Study of Trees ca. 1785 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom Forest Scene ca. 1650 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Otto H. Bacher Trees 1878 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Federico Barocci Grove of Trees ca. 1600 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
Gustave Baumann Redwood 1928 color woodcut Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld Edge of a Wood with Flowering Tree ca. 1775 drawing, with watercolor Musée du Louvre |
Pietro Testa Group of Trees with Nymphs and Satyrs before 1650 drawing British Museum |
Thomas Frederick Collier Beech Trees before 1874 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Andrew Dasburg Trees ca. 1930 watercolor Denver Art Museum |
Clara Folingsby Tree Study, Ireland ca. 1860-70 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
from The Grove
There was no road at all to that high place
But through the smothering grove,
Where as we went the shadows wove
Adulterous shapes of animal hate and love,
The idol-crowded nightmare Space,
Wood beyond wood, tree behind tree,
And every tree an empty face.
– Edwin Muir (1941)