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)