Watts, May Theilgaard
Winter Twigs, page 1
Identifier
3.24627Format
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream board.Digitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
35.7 cm W x 54.4 cm H (Item)29 cm W x 45.8 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
1943Description
Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 18, no. 11, p. 61-64.Subject - keywords and LC headings
TwigsDrawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch (Kentucky coffeetree)
Liriodendron tulipifera L. (tulip-tree)
Alnus B. Ehrh. (alder)
Fraxinus L. (ash)
Fagus L. (beech)
Juglans nigra L. (black walnut)
Juglans cinerea L. (butternut)
Catalpa Scop. (catalpa)
Cornus florida L. (flowering dogwood)
Celtis L. (hackberry)
Tilia L. (linden)
Acer L. (maple)
Quercus L. (oak)
Rhus L. (sumac)
Platanus occidentalis L. (sycamore)
Salix L. (willow)
