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Watts, May Theilgaard

Tree Portraits: Red Maple

3.31791
ink and airbrushed watercolor on tan Bainbridge board #80
Digitized
Original
27.7 cm W x 35.5 cm H (Item)
1 sheet
Painting
1940 – 1950
Color silhouette of a Red Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig with buds, seeds, and descriptive text.

Header: RED MAPLE

Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
  • leaf
  • tree
  • twig with buds: opposite-branching
  • seeds: ripe in May-June; found in lowlands but also on uplands
Buds
Leaves
Seeds
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Acer rubrum L. (red maple)
Artwork
English
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