Edwin Austin Abbey Study of Two Trees and a Field before 1911 watercolor Yale University Art Gallery |
Eugène Atget Olive Tree, Nice ca. 1900 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
F. Beazley Tree Study ca. 1860-70 albumen print Yale Center for British Art |
Barbara Bosworth National Champion Joshua Tree, California 2002 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Wanda Gág Tree ca. 1924 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Michael Gallagher Catalpa Tree ca. 1934 woodcut Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Harold Giese Winter Tree ca. 1954 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
Philip Jessup Flooded Tree, West Don (Toronto) 2004 dye destruction print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Alphonse-Nicolas-Michel Mandevare Tree Study before 1829 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
attributed to James Mudd Study of a Tree overgrown with Ivy ca. 1860-70 albumen print Yale Center for British Art |
Anne Nasmyth Tree 1867 watercolor National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh |
Crescenzio Onofri Dead Tree in Landscape before 1698 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Horatio Ross Tree ca. 1858 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Alfred Stieglitz The Dancing Trees 1922 palladium print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
James Ward An Old Oak Tree ca. 1820 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
Ziegler & Cie. Study of a Tree ca. 1860 albumen silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
from Clinical Thermometer Set with Moonstone
When your father dies
he doesn't let you swoon
into aventurine or spray
of lily (pearls) of the valley
you do not bifurcate
you may
supplicate
– Alice Notley (1976)