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| Pierre Henri de Valenciennes Study of a Tree, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris 1773 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Paulus van Liender Wooded Landscape ca. 1780-90 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jean-Victor Bertin Study of a Tree ca. 1800-1805 gouache on paper Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Robert Hills Study of Trees 1802 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous German Printmaker Tree in Dresden ca. 1810 etching Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Adolf Vollmer Friedrich Klopstock's Linden Tree at Ottenstein 1829 lithograph Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Cornelius Varley Study of Trees at the Edge of a Field ca. 1830 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Sell Cotman Study of Trees before 1842 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Edward Seager Elm Tree, Willow Brook 1844 drawing Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Georges Seurat Trees (study for painting, La Grande Jatte) 1884 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Helen Allingham Yew Tree at Northfield ca. 1890 drawing British Museum |
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| Darío de Regoyos Pine Tree at Béjar 1900 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Taro Yashima Tree 1940 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Stephen McKenna An English Oak Tree 1981 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Joel Meyerowitz Provincetown Fence / Tree 1983 C-print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
Feather in Bas-Relief
Words without much use
now. Unable to remake
the thing. And I thought
what should I think –
followed by: spring light looks
like feathers. (Birds
seemed conveniently
decorous.) What then
does this leave I asked
& was surprised to know
so quickly – that my understanding
of what the light & birds
could not be made to mean
would not detract
from them as they
were. Bound by feathers
(a thought, I will admit,
born of artifice alone)
they bore themselves aloft.
What could I counter with?
I, who held my heart
in offering as much for
show as for a fear so deep
I found I couldn't name it.
– Allen Edwin Butt (2009)