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Watts, May Theilgaard

The Deciduous Conifers

3.24623
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Digitized
Original
36.9 cm W x 58.5 cm H (Item)
29.5 cm W x 44.4 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1945
Illustrations of two conifer species, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include two full trees with two illustrations of leaves underneath. The identifying text "needles in tufts drooping twigs" is glued on separate piece of paper to the surface, top right. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present. 

[Original header (not included with art): THE DECIDUOUS CONIFERS]

Trees depicted from left to right:
  • Bald cypress -- Taxodium distichum
  • European larch -- Larix descidua

 
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, June and July 1945, Vol. 20, no. 6-7, p. 30.
Conifers
Needles (Botany)
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich. (bald-cypress)
Larix decidua Mill. (European larch)
Artwork
English
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