Watts, May Theilgaard
Some Ways of Wearing the Snow
Identifier
3.24622Format
India pen ink on 4-ply cream rag boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
37.2 cm W x 58.4 cm H (Item)29.5 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
1945Description
Ten illustrations of evergreen trees, deciduous trees, and shrubs with snow clinging to them in different ways, created to accompany "They Wear The Snow With A Difference" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. A descriptive label accompanies each image.Header: SOME WAYS OF WEARING THE SNOW
Branches, needles, and leaves of trees and plants depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- White Pine
- Colorado Spruce
- Mugo pine
- Norway spruce
- Hemlock
- Bur oak
- Hawthorn
- Rhododendron
- High-bush cranberry
- Ninebark
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 3.Subject - keywords and LC headings
Crataegus L. (hawthorn)Physocarpus opulifolius (L.) Maxim. (common ninebark)
Picea abies (L.) Karsten (Norway spruce)
Picea pungens Engelm. (blue spruce)
Pinus mugo Turra (mugo pine)
Pinus strobus L. (eastern white pine)
Quercus macrocarpa Michx. (bur oak)
Rhododendron L. (azalea)
Tsuga (hemlock)
Viburnum opulus var. americanum Aiton (American cranberry-bush)
Snow
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
