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| attributed to Matthijs Bril Large Oak Tree ca. 1575-83 drawing British Museum |
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| Cristofano Allori Study of a Tree ca. 1610-20 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Tree 17th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| George Barret the Elder Beech Trees, Surrey 1776 watercolor and gouache Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson Road and Trees ca. 1843-47 salted paper print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anonymous French Photographer Tree 1853 salted paper print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Désiré Charnay Baobab à Mohéli 1863 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Vernon Heath Walnut Tree in front of the old Sandringham House 1864 albumen print Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| James Sinclair and William Bainbridge Great Beech on Manor Hill 1864 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Nicolaas Bastert Crown of a Tree ca. 1910 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Eugène Atget Beech Tree ca. 1910-13 gold chloride print (printed by Berenice Abbott) Yale University Art Gallery |
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| August Sander Beech Tree ca. 1936 gelatin silver print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Jerry Uelsmann Untitled (Tree with Roots) 1964 gelatin silver print Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Bernhard Fellmann Vinegar Tree 1983 drawing (colored pencils and chalks) Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Irvine Loudon Wytham Oak 1992 etching Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Joel Sternfeld A Male Pistachio Tree in Bloom, Village Homes, Davis, California 2005 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
from Tan Tien
As usual, the first gate was modest. It is dilapidated. She can't tell
which bridge crossed the moat, which all cross sand now, disordered with footsteps.
It's a precise overlay of circles on squares, but she has trouble locating
the main avenue and retraces her steps in intense heat for the correct entrance,
which was intentionally blurred, the way a round arch can give onto a red wall,
far enough in back of the arch for sun to light.
– Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (2006)