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Watts, May Theilgaard

Some Ways of Wearing the Snow

3.24622
India pen ink on 4-ply cream rag board 
Digitized
Original
37.2 cm W x 58.4 cm H (Item)
29.5 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1945
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
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 3.
Snow
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Physocarpus opulifolius (L.) Maxim. (common ninebark)
Picea abies (L.) Karsten (Norway spruce)
Viburnum opulus var. americanum Aiton (American cranberry-bush)
Rhododendron L. (azalea)
Picea pungens Engelm. (blue spruce)
Quercus macrocarpa Michx. (bur oak)
Pinus strobus L. (eastern white pine)
Crataegus L. (hawthorn)
Tsuga (hemlock)
Pinus mugo Turra (mugo pine)
Artwork
English
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