Share    Contact us
Rights & User Restrictions
Copyright statement:

Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from the Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum. For more information, please visit our ABOUT section or complete and submit this form.

Watts, May Theilgaard

Emergent Plant Series: #4, Pioneer Tree Stage

Identifier
3.19488
Format
airbrush, colored pencil, pen and ink on cream board
Digitization Status
Digitized
Reproduction:
Original
Dimensions
71.3 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)
Extent
1 sheet
Type
Drawing
Date created
1950s
Description
Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended up to and above the water's surface.

Header: PIONEER TREE STAGE / WILLOWS ARE FIRST

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
  • pond and surrounding landscape
  • cross-section [divided into 4 sections]:
    • Tree Zone
      • willow
      • silver maple
    • Emergent plant one
    • Floating leaf zone
    • Submerged plant zone
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Aquatic plants
Pond ecology
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Acer saccharinum L. (silver maple)
Salix L. (willow)
Related Collections
Artwork
Language
English