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Watts, May Theilgaard

Tree Portraits: Chestnut Oak

3.31806
ink and airbrushed watercolor on tan board
Digitized
Original
27.7 cm W x 35.5 cm H (Item)
1 sheet
Painting
1940 – 1950
Color silhouette of a Chestnut Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, a fruit, flowers, and descriptive text.

Header: CHESTNUT OAK

Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
  • leaf
  • tree
  • twig with buds: native just south of Arboretum
  • fruit: matures in one year; kernel sweet
  • flowers 
Acorns
Buds
Leaves
Trees--Identification
Twigs
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Quercus montana Willd. (chestnut oak)
Artwork
English
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