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Watts, May Theilgaard

Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 4 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches

3.24678
Sheet 1: Pen and India ink on cream Strathmore board
Sheet 2: Colored pencil on cream paper
 
Digitized
Original
27 cm W x 36.8 cm H (Item)
21 cm W x 32.4 cm H (Platemark or image size)
2 sheets, 1 cutout
Drawing
1940s
Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 4, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #3: Colorado Green Spruce
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below. 

Tree stump #4: Norway Spruce
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below. 

Tree stump #5: Colorado Blue Spruce
 
Tree stump #6: White Spruce
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.

Several cutout illustrations depicting needle/cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Colorado Green Spruce needles housed with art. 

Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations. 
Evergreens
Nature study
Nature trails
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Picea abies (L.) Karsten (Norway spruce)
Picea pungens Engelm. (blue spruce)
Evergreen Trail
Picea glauca (Moench) Voss (white spruce)
Artwork
English
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