Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Trees (clustered)

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)