Quercus rubra (red oak) (3.24300)
Date: September 1980Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:Quercus rubra (red oak)
Branch with fruits and leaves, drawn from specimen collected at The Morton Arboretum by George Ware and Nancy S. Hart, south of rhododendrons on Spring Road, Herbarium specimen # 37688 + 33514 + 10208
Extent: 1 drawing
Reindeer, lichens and mosses [graphic]. (3.24316)
Date: 1977Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 22 x 28 cm.
Cedar waxwings eating fruit [graphic] / N.S.H. Stieber. (3.24332)
Date: 1990Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 19 x 17 cm., on board 23 x 28 cm.
White oak leaf [graphic] / N. Hart Stieber. (3.24348)
Date: 1991Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 8 x 16 cm., on sheet 15 x 25 cm.
Rhododendron catawbiense [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24364)
Date: 1975Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 4 drawings : 2 graphite, 2 pen and ink, b&w 28 x 22 cm. 16 x 11 cm. + 5 photographs (b&w, 9 x 11 cm.) + 1 photocopied page of notes (28 x 22 cm.).
Eight illustrations for an article in The Morton Arboretum Quarterly [graphic] / NSHS. (3.24380)
Date: 1985Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 8 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 31 x 23 cm.
Lake scene landscape [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart Stieber. (3.24396)
Date: 1998Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 18 x 12 cm., on board 21 x 20 cm.
Oaks (#2) (3.24412)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:White oak tree with roots showing drip line. Single leaf to the left underneath the tree. Used for Plant Clinic handouts.
Extent: 1 drawing
Eastern cottonwood = [graphic] Populus deltoides / N.S. Stieber. (3.24428)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 33 cm., on board 34 x 34 cm.
Calligraphic poster for exhibit [graphic] : the botanic garden and the book / [Nancy Hart Stieber]. (3.24444)
Date: 1980sCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 64 x 51 cm.
Ginkgo biloba nature prints [graphic]. (3.24460)
Date: 1998Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 29 prints : nature print, b&w, some single color image varying from 12 x 8 cm. to 19 x 18 cm., on sheet varying from 20 x 13 cm. to 32 x 18 cm.
American hazelnut understory [graphic] : savanna design for visitor center / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24476)
Date: 1994 – 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 8 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 26 x 74 cm. and smaller + 1 stat (b&w 41 x 77 cm.).
Always in season [graphic] : sketches for logo / NS Hart. (3.24494)
Date: 1990sCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 8 drawings : pen and ink, graphite, blue pencil, black felt tip marker, b&w, some color 29 x 22 cm. or smaller + 2 photocopies (b&w, 28 x 22 cm.).
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24510)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Animals and birds: Bull frog (3.24526)
Date: March 23 2001Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:One of nineteen full figure animal images, not to scale.
Bull frog
Extent: 1 drawing
Clematis paniculata [graphic] Hamamelis vernalis Rosa rugosa 'Delicata' / N.S.H. (3.24542)
Date: 1987Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, pen and ink, b&w 36 x 28 cm.
Aster laevis [graphic]. (3.24558)
Date: 1970sCreator: Lively, Bobbie.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 32 x 15 cm., on sheet 37 x 30 cm.
Cladrastis lutea [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24574)
Date: 1967Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Platanus occidentalis [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24590)
Date: 1967Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Trees with Flowers Borne in Catkins (3.24606)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting catkins, flowers, seeds, and associated outline of five trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Catkins
Illustrations are separated into two sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Catkins on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- Catkins Upright
- Black willow -- Salix nigra
- Catkins Pendent
- Cottonwood -- Populus deltoides
(depicted from left to right)
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
Extent: 1 sheet
Some Ways of Wearing the Snow (3.24622)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Ten illustrations of evergreen trees, deciduous trees, and shrubs with snow clinging to them in different ways, created to accompany "They Wear The Snow With A Difference" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. A descriptive label accompanies each image.
Header: SOME WAYS OF WEARING THE SNOW
Branches, needles, and leaves of trees and plants depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- White Pine
- Colorado Spruce
- Mugo pine
- Norway spruce
- Hemlock
- Bur oak
- Hawthorn
- Rhododendron
- High-bush cranberry
- Ninebark
Extent: 1 sheet
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 14 illustrations and layout (3.24671)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 14, excluding most text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #39: A Mature Sugar Maple
Identifying characteristics of mature sugar maple bark illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #40: From a Bird's Viewpoint
Identifying characteristics of Hawthorn leaf, flower, and fruit illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #41: Wild Strawberry
Identifying characteristics of three leaflet leaf and flower and Five Finger or Cinquefoil five leaflet leaf and flower illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #42: A Girdling Experiment
Typewritten text describing ash tree girdling glued to center panel, and illustration of girdled trunk to the right.
Tree stump #43: OO-HOOSH-AB--"It Slips"
Illustration of a hand holding a Slippery Elm leaf and a small drawing of a man's face with stubble to illustrate the "unshaven" feel of the leaves and twigs.
Extent: 1 Sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 14 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24688)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 14, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stump with number indicates point of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #35: Where Do Evergreens Grow?
Includes identifying characteristics of growth locations and cycles illustrated below in bogs, canyons, sand dunes, bare rock, wind-swept shores, mountains.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Pflanzenaquarelle des Hans Weiditz aus dem Jahre 1529 : die Originale zu den Holzschnitten im Brunfels'schen Kräuterbuch / von Walter Rytz. (3.24808)
Date: 1936Creator: Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 44 p. : ill. 45 x 31 cm. + 15 plates (44 x 29 cm.) + 15 leaves (22 x 28 cm., folded to 8 x 14 cm. or smaller).
Illinois tree trail. (3.24824)
Date: 1970Type: Drawing
Extent: 18 drawings : pen and ink, blue line and black type 31 x 23 cm.
East view of Visitor Center [sketch A] (3.24840)
Date: 1973 – 1992Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:One of three sketches of approximately the same view of the outside of The Morton Arboretum Visitor Center showing parts of the restaurant and adjacent courtyard.
Extent: 1 drawing
Crataegus viridis 'Winter King' [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart Stieber. (3.31662)
Date: 2001Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 4 drawings : graphite, b&w image varying from 25 x 16 cm. to 28 x 22 cm., on board varying from 36 x 23 cm. to 39 x 29 cm.
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Flower and Garden Show 75th Anniversary Poster Photocopy of layout for banner (3.18280)
Date: 1996 – 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing