Watts, May Theilgaard
The Christmas Trees
Identifier
3.24630Format
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
35.4 cm W x 58.5 cm H (Item)34 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
1945Description
Illustration of seven evergreen trees, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full trees with needle illustrations below divided into sections according to needles, twigs, and branches. The identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.[Original header (not included with art): THE "CHRISTMAS TREES"]
Trees depicted, from left to right:
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- Hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, June and July 1945, Vol. 20, no. 6-7, p. 28-29.Subject - keywords and LC headings
Christmas treesTrees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Picea abies (L.) Karsten (Norway spruce)
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Douglas-fir)
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir)
Picea pungens Engelm. (blue spruce)
Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr. (eastern hemlock)
Pinaceae (pine family)
Abies concolor (Hook.) Nutt. (white fir)
Picea glauca (Moench) Voss (white spruce)
