Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Timber

Thomas Gainsborough
Trees at the Edge of a Wood
ca. 1750-55
drawing
British Museum


Marsden Hartley
Maine Woods
1908
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Madoka Takagi
110th Street & Manhattan Avenue, New York
1990
platinum print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Monogrammist J.Y. (British draughtsman)
Trees Growing on a Rocky Bank
ca. 1700-1725
drawing
British Museum

Frank Gohlke
Yews, Vassar Campus
2006
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Max Klinger after Arnold Böcklin
A Summer's Day
1882
etching and aquatint
British Museum

Albert Joseph Moore
Study of an Ash Trunk
1857
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Tanya Marcuse
Fruitless no. 26
2006
pigment print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Monogrammist J.Y. (British draughtsman)
Trees Growing on a Rocky Knoll
ca. 1700-1725
drawing
British Museum

Théodore Valério
Walker on a Path through Trees
1855
color aquatint
British Museum

John Linnell
Apple Tree
1811
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Anselm Kiefer
Untitled
(series, Heroic Symbols)
1969
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Jacob van Ruisdael
Landscape with Avenue of Trees
before 1682
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

Sylvia Plimack Mangold
The Pin Oak at the Pond
1986
drypoint and aquatint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Graham Sutherland
Thorn Trees
1946
watercolor, ink and charcoal on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Graham Sutherland
Thorn Trees
1945
oil on cardboard
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Paul Sandby
Windsor Great Park near Virginia Water
ca. 1750
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Hang that day with black, that night, sinister, moonless,
    that fearful wind-whipped sea-howl
which threw on shore the ship of gentle Abderion
    as he made unheard vows to the gods. 
For out of that utter shipwreck on the sharp rocks
    of Seriphus, all he got was fire
from the city's pious hosts, and a voyage home
    to Abdera, bound in a bronze urn. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Edwin Morgan