Monday, September 11, 2023

Trees (sculptural)

John Wilkins
Tree Sculpture
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Benjamin West
A Mighty Tree in Windsor Great Park
before 1820
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Harry Fabian Ware
Tree Trunks
1938
etching
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Clark Voorhees
Greenwood Trees in Winter
ca. 1930
etching
Yale University Art Gallery

Vincent van Gogh
The Large Plane Trees
1889
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Félix Thiollier
Chestnut Tree by the Side of a Road
ca. 1875-80
albumen print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous British Photographer
Oak Trees in a Graveyard
ca. 1852-57
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Aaron Siskind
Olive Tree, Corfu
1970
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Josef Seger
Alte Lärche
1928
wood-engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

David Roberts
Trees in Northwick Park
1830
watercolor and gouache
Yale Center for British Art

Beatrix Potter
Study of a Tree Trunk
ca. 1903
watercolor
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Geo Poggenbeek
The Willow
oil on cardboard
ca. 1873
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Barbara Morgan
Beech Tree IV
1945
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Dora Maar
Trees and Ominous Sky
ca. 1931-36
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

John Landseer after George Garrard
Great Tree sheltering a Family of Foxes
1805
etching and engraving
British Museum

Nicholas Caire
Giant Tree at Warburton
ca. 1903
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

from Beside These Sheltered Waters

Beside these sheltered waters I have seen
The daily cumuli of juniper
And maples merge and flatten to a screen
Too long familiar; but I felt a stranger
When a lambent, inexplicable glaze
Spilled through hemlock pagodas and vermilion
Withe-rod fountains from a sky of chrysoprase . . . 

– Bertha Hinman (1960)