Watts, May Theilgaard
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches
Identifier
3.24683Format
Sheet 1: Pen and India ink on cream Strathmore boardSheet 2: Colored pencil on cream paper
Digitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
29 cm W x 37.1 cm H (Item)21 cm W x 32.4 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
2 sheetsType
DrawingDate created
1940sDescription
Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.Pine Hill section begins with text "Pines have - needles in bundles (illustration of 3 types of bundles), tips of cone scales thickened (illustration of cone)."
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #17: Jack Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #18: Jeffery Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #19: Limber Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #20: Ponderosa Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #21: Japanese White Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and an illustrated image of Bonsai tree in pot on bottom right.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Subject - keywords and LC headings
EvergreensNature study
Nature trails
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Evergreen Trail
Pinus banksiana Lamb. (jack pine)
Pinus parviflora Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese white pine)
Pinus jeffreyi Balfour ex Murr. (Jeffrey pine)
Pinus flexilis James (limber pine)
Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson (ponderosa pine)
