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
Rhododendron catawbiense [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24002)
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.).
Rhododendron catawbiense [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24095)
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.).
Rhododendron catawbiense [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24096)
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.).
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.).
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 7 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24681)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 7, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #14: Broad-leaved Evergreens
Includes image of Leuchothoe Catesbi illustrated below.
Tree stump #15: Rododendron
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of flowers and leaves illustrated below - image of leaves in winter labeled "balmy," "drippy," "nippy," and "brrr!".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Canada warbler = [graphic] Sylvia pardalina Bonaparte's flycatcher = Muscicapa bonapartii Aud. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24949)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 68 x 100 cm.
Azalea and invitation [graphic] / Henry Evans. (3.25388)
Date: 1960sCreator: Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : linocut, color 62 x 43 cm.
Rhododendron 'Holden' = Holden rhododendron / Anne Ophelia Dowden. (3.29542)
Date: 1974Creator: Dowden, Anne Ophelia, 1907-2007
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 art reproduction : half-tone, color artificial platemark 42 x 34 cm., on sheet 51 x 41 cm.
Rhododendron collection : the Morton Arboretum / Anne Osann Norton. (3.30555)
Date: 1983Creator: Norton, Anne Osann.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite visible image 44 x 71 cm., on sheet 51 x 76 cm.
Biographical sketch of the artist : Anne Ophelia Dowden / The Frame House Gallery. (3.31088)
Date: 2001Type: Painting
Extent: 3 portfolios : photomechanical reproductions, color and b&w sheets 42 x 64, 51 x 82 and 58 x 94 cm., folded to 42 x 32, 51 x 31 and 58 x 94 cm., respectively.