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Watts, May Theilgaard

The Christmas Trees

3.24630
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream board
Digitized
Original
35.4 cm W x 58.5 cm H (Item)
34 cm W x 46 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1945
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
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, June and July 1945, Vol. 20, no. 6-7, p. 28-29.​
Christmas trees
Trees--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)
Artwork
English
Copyright statement:

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