Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Timber

Franz Kobell
Woodland Landscape
ca. 1790
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Barbara Bosworth
Sargent's Weeping Hemlock, Vassar Campus
2003
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Robert Adams
Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Oregon
1999
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Paul Sandby
City Conduit, Bayswater
ca. 1760-70
watercolor on paper
British Museum

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

Charles-François Daubigny
Printemps
ca. 1870
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Franz Kobell
Elms in a Park
before 1822
drawing
British Museum

Eliot Porter
Cirio (Fouquieria columnaris), Baja California
1966
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Henri-Joseph Harpignies
Morning on the Loire
1904
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Franz Kobell
Spreading Chestnut Trees
before 1822
drawing
British Museum

Sylvia Plimack Mangold
The Elm Tree 11/93
1993
watercolor on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Niels Skovgaard
Under the Linden Tree at Nysø
1897
oil on canvas
Skovgaard Museum, Viborg, Denmark

Johan Thomas Lundbye
View with Willow Tree at Vallekilde in Denmark
1846
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Alex Katz
Swamp Maple (4:30)
1968
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Richard Westall
Trees in Summer
before 1836
graphite and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Olympe Aguado
Tree in the Bois de Boulogne
1856
salted paper print from waxed paper negative
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Adam Töpffer
Oak Tree
before 1847
oil on paper
Morgan Library, New York

Who are you, whose pitiful bones
Lie bleakly naked by the roadway?
Your battered coffin is half-open:
The wheels and axles of passing wagons
Are steadily wearing your tomb away.
Soon they will actually scrape your ribs;
And not a tear will be shed for you.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Fleur Adcock