January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet
Four Oaks (3.19491)
Date: 1940 – 1959Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four oaks: Chinkapin oak, Swamp white oak, White oak and Bur oak. Each tree is illustrated by silhouette, and is accompanied by an outline of its leaf and drawings of its twig with a winter bud and its acorn.
upper left: Quercus muehlenbergii, Chinkapin oak
upper right: Quercus bicolor, Swamp white oak
lower left: Quercus alba, White oak
lower right Quercus macrocarpa, Bur oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A Fence Long Gone Marked A Boundary (3.19498)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how a fence once marked a boundary through a forest.
Header: A fence (long gone) marked a boundary through a forest (long gone)
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1. A long row of trees: red oaks, white oaks, and ironwood [an illustration of a row of trees]
- 2. the soil profile on both sides of this row [arrow pointing right to illustration of a cross-section of soil]
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Because red oaks and ironwoods belong in rich (mesophytic) woods, and
- 2) because a thin layer of black soil on top of clay is typical of forests in this area (but not of prairies) and
- 3) because there would have been forest-margin trees, like hawthorn, if this fence had edged a forest - We read the record as above [arrow extending upward to header]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Know, Know, Know Your Oaks, This Is How They Grow (3.19509)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the growth direction of five types of oak tree branches. Illustrations depict small human-shaped figures that indicate tree branch growth with arms and run diagonally down the center of the image with descriptive text on either side.
Header: Know, know, know your oaks, / This is how they grow:
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- Red Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised overhead] (arms held to indicate acute-angled branching)
- White Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulders] (arms indicate right-angled branching)
- Bur Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder and elbows bent down] (elbows indicated gnarled branching)
- Pin Oak, [illustration of figure with arms extended at sides] (deflected lower branches)
- and Hill's, untidy below. [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder, elbows bent down, and fingers splayed] (fingers indicate deflected, dead, lower branches)
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Quercus alba : the veteran of the Ozarks (3.21941)
Date: 1910Creator: Lillibridge, Will, 1878-1909.
Type: Book
Extent: 48 pages, 1 leaf, frontispiece
Quercus alba : the veteran of the Ozarks (3.21942)
Date: 1910Creator: Lillibridge, Will, 1878-1909.
Type: Book
Extent: 48 pages, 1 leaf, frontispiece
White oak, Quercus alba, Stage 10 (photostat) (3.23763)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 10: Addition of wasp's nest, top left additions to branch and leaf, bottom left completion of oak leaves and top-third of work
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 7 (photostat) (3.23764)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 7: Introduction of ink and tree structure to top third of work
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 8 (photostat) (3.23765)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 8: Introduction of ink and tree structure to top third of work
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 6 (photostat) (3.23766)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 6: Development of background, and evolution of tree trunk and branches
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 5 (photostat) (3.23767)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 5: Placement of geese and woodpecker figures, and tree-top details emerging
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 2 (photostat) (3.23768)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 2: Application of ink over new area, completion of calligraphy and acorn, with tree trunk, flowers, ivy and oak leaves emerging
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 3 (photostat) (3.23769)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 3: Work on trunk and branches, completion of ivy and moth, and pen-and-ink work on bottom right
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 4 (photostat) (3.23770)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
Stage 4: Photostat showing bottom right fully developed, acorns and leaves inked and scratched, and addition of a squirrel figure
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 1 (photocopy) (3.23771)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at The Morton Arboretum.
(Stage 1, sheet 1): Photocopy of original graphite detailed sketch
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 1 (photostat) (3.23772)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at The Morton Arboretum.
(Stage 1, sheet 2): Photostat of original graphite detailed sketch
Photostats represent progress-copies washed to archival standards and used for teaching purposes
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 1 (photocopy) (3.23773)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at The Morton Arboretum.
(Stage 1, sheet 3): Photocopy of first application of ink and development of calligraphy
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 2 (photocopy) (3.23774)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 2, sheet 1): Photocopy showing application of ink over new area, completion of calligraphy and acorn, with tree trunk, flowers, ivy and oak leaves emerging
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies.
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 3 (photocopy) (3.23775)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 3, sheet 2): Photocopy showing work on trunk and branches, completion of ivy and moth, and pen-and-ink work on bottom right
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 4 (photocopy) (3.23776)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 4, sheet 1): Photocopy showing bottom right fully developed, acorns and leaves inked and scratched, and addition of a squirrel figure
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 5 (photocopy) (3.23777)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 5, sheet 1): Photocopy showing placement of geese and woodpecker figures, and tree-top details emerging
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 6 (photocopy) (3.23778)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 6, sheet 1): Photocopy showing development of background, and evolution of tree trunk and branches
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 7 (photocopy) (3.23779)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 7, sheet 1): Photocopy showing introduction of ink and tree structure to top third of work
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 9 (photocopy) (3.23780)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 9, sheet 1): Photocopy showing addition of bird's nest, top left, and branch, bottom left completion of woodpecker and development of oak leaves, acorns and calligraphy
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 10 (photocopy) (3.23781)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 10, sheet 1): Photocopy showing addition of wasp's nest, top left additions to branch and leaf, bottom left completion of oak leaves and top-third of work
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 11 (photocopy) (3.23782)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 11, sheet 2): Photocopy showing reduced size of left center of work
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 11 (photocopy) (3.23783)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 11, sheet 3): Photocopy showing reduced size of bottom two-thirds of work
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 10 (photocopy) (3.23784)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 10, sheet 3): Photocopy showing addition of wasp's nest, top left additions to branch and leaf, bottom left completion of oak leaves and top-third of work (calligraphy copy)
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak = Quercus alba, Stage 11 (photocopy) (3.23785)
Date: 1990Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Description:Artist's scratchboard technique documented in multiple copies at eleven progressive stages in the work, for use in a 2004 Visiting Artist Series at the Arboretum.
(Stage 11, sheet 1): Photocopy showing reduced size of bottom two-thirds of work
Photocopies represent artist's working-copies to record progress and successive stages of scratchboard
Extent: 1 sheet
Oaks (#3) (3.24006)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Print
Description:Three different winter oak trees: white oak, northern red oak, and bur oak. Each tree has an acorn to the left and a leaf to the right of the trunk. White oak acorn has been cut out and is missing.
Extent: 1 print
Holiday card 1998 [graphic] : trees in four seasons / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24011)
Date: 1998Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor, color image 12 x 33 cm., on sheet 24 x 37 cm. + 1 greeting card (art reproduction : color folded size, 10 x 23 cm.)
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24012)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24013)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24014)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.