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| Agustín Lhardy Garrigues Árboles en Flor 1884 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Arthur Wesley Dow Blooming Tree ca. 1900 cyanotype Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Gustave Klimt Pear Tree 1903 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Joseph Farington Group of Trees ca. 1780 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Eugène Bléry The Elm Tree 1840 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous German Artist Clump of Trees 19th century drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Fontainebleau - Oak Trees at Bas Bréau ca. 1832-33 oil on paper, mounted on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Frederick Collier Study of an Oak Tree before 1874 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist Study of a Tree 19th century watercolor and gouache Morgan Library, New York |
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| Oliver Messel Set Design - Tree for Sleeping Beauty 1946 watercolor and gouache Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Edward Lear Nuneham 1860 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
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| Hans Iten Five Trees by a River ca. 1910 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| George Chinnery Trees by a River before 1852 drawing, with watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Singer Sargent Ilex Wood, Majorca 1908 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Carol M. Highsmith Sassafras Tree, Owensboro, Kentucky 2020 digital photograph Library of Congress, Washington DC |
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| Arno Drescher Chestnut in Blossom 1947 oil on cardboard Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
from Cement Backyard
My father had our yard cemented over.
He couldn't tell a flower from a weed.
The neighbors let their backyards run to clover
and some grew dappled gardens from a seed,
but he preferred cement to rampant green.
Lushness reeked of anarchy's profusion.
Better to tamp the wildness down, unseen,
than tolerate its careless brash intrusion.
– Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2012)
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| Henri Braakensiek Chestnut Blossom 1922 lithograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |