Monday, February 9, 2026

Timber

Claude Lorrain
Group of Trees
ca. 1630-35
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


John Singer Sargent
Olive Trees by Lake Garda
ca. 1909
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Lois Conner
American Larch, Vassar Campus
2004
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Aelbert Cuyp
An Opening in a Wood
ca. 1640
drawing
British Museum

Jon Carsman
Sentinels
ca. 1978
screenprint
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Auguste Paul Charles Anastasi
Trunk of Spanish Chestnut
1841
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Nicolas Party
Landscape
2019
pastel on linen
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Lodewijk de Vadder
Lake in a Wood
before 1655
drawing
British Museum

Antoine Chazal
Le Yucca gloriosa fleuri dans le parc de Neuilly
1844
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Ken Gonzales-Day
Nightfall I
2006
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Richard Cooper
Tree Study with Figures
before 1814
drawing
British Museum

Philips Koninck
Figures in Woodland
1670
drawing
British Museum

Alexandre Calame
Arbre brisé au Kerket, près de Meyringen
ca. 1838-39
oil on card
Musée du Louvre

Graciela Iturbide
Homage to Pasolini, Ostia Italy
2007
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Roger Mertin
Hailey, Idaho
1976
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom
Wooded Landscape
before 1675
drawing
British Museum

André Derain
Les Arbres
ca. 1906
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

'Goodbye Sun!' said the Ambracian 
Kleombrotos, as he jumped
Off a high wall to Hades:
Not that he found any evil
Worthy of death, but he'd read
One of Plato's treatises – On the Soul.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Jay