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Tree Portraits: Persimmon (3.19514)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Persimmon tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: PERSIMMON
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: alternate
- tree: opossum's tree; native from central Illinois southward; bark broken into block, showing orange underbark
- fruit: astringent unless fully ripe
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Hill's Oak (3.31787)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Hill's Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a winter twig and fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: HILLS OAK
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: [arrow] shining surface
- tree
- twig
- fruit
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Redbud (3.31788)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Redbud tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and drawings of seeds, a winter twig, and flower.
Header: REDBUD
Drawings, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- seeds
- tree
- twig
- flower
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Willow (3.31790)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a twig with buds, and descriptive text.
Header: WILLOW
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- twig and buds: single scale on each bud
- tree: twigs slender, yellow in Spring; along a river bank
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Red Maple (3.31791)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Red Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig with buds, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RED MAPLE
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: opposite-branching
- seeds: ripe in May-June; found in lowlands but also on uplands
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: White Ash (3.31792)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a White Ash tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig and a seed, and descriptive text.
Header: WHITE ASH
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaves: opposite branching
- tree
- twig with close-up sketch of texture: diamond-shaped ridges
- seeds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Cockspur Hawthorn (3.31793)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Cockspur Hawthorn tree of the crus-galli species, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a thorn and a fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: COCKSPUR HAWTHORN crus galli type
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- thorn
- fruit: latest to bloom; fruit persists longest
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Silver Poplar (3.31794)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Silver Poplar tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: SILVER POPLAR
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- seeds: cottony
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Siberian Elm (3.31795)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Siberian Elm tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Header: SIBERIAN ELM
Drawings from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Swamp White Oak (3.31796)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Swamp White Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, a fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: SWAMP WHITE OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- fruit
- tree: on low ground
- twig
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Witch Hazel (3.31797)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Witch Hazel tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of flower and seed, a winter bud, and descriptive text.
Header: WITCH HAZEL
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- flower and seed
- bud: winter bud stalked, naked
- tree: yellow flowers in October
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sour Gum (3.31798)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Sour Gum tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: SOUR GUM
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: brilliant scarlet in Fall; alternate
- fruits
- tree: along edges of swamps
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: River Birch (3.31799)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a River Birch tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of blossoms, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RIVER BIRCH
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: no thorns; catkins
- tree: peeling bark; ragged
- blossoms and seeds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: English Oak (3.31801)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of an English Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a fruit, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: ENGLISH OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: alternate
- fruit: not native
- tree: European
- twig with buds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Kentucky Coffeetree (3.31802)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:A nature print outline of a Kentucky Coffeetree leaf, drawings of its seeds, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- seeds
- twig: salmon-colored pith
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Water Beech (3.31804)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Water Beech tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of fruit with seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: WATER BEECH
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf [arrow pointing right to stem]: scarlet and orange in Autumn
- tree: bark with "muscles"
- fruit and seeds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Wild Plum (3.31805)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description: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
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Chestnut Oak (3.31806)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description: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
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Schwedler Maple (3.31807)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Schwedler Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: SCHWEDLER MAPLE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree: opposite branching; purplish-red Spring coloring
- seeds: ripe in Fall; purplish color
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sycamore Maple (3.31808)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Sycamore Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: SYCAMORE MAPLE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree: dark heavy green; no Autumn coloring; no milk
- twig with buds
- seeds: ripe in Fall; European
Extent: 1 sheet