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
SnowDrawings -- 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)
