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Watts, May Theilgaard

Tree Portraits: Wild Plum

3.31805
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 Wild Plum tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a fruit, and descriptive text.

Header: WILD PLUM 

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
  • leaf: conspicuous net-work of veins [arrow pointing up to tip]
  • fruit
  • tree: bark peeling showing reddish-brown inner bark; [arrow pointing right to trunk] horizontal lenticels branching near base
Bark
Fruit trees
Leaves
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Prunus americana Marsh. (wild plum)
Artwork
English
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