Morton Arboretum Map: Preliminary Drawing for Colored Map (3.19480)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Preliminary drawing for detailed colored map of Arboretum grounds that was printed in 1943, showing roads, paths, landscaping, shelters, enlargement of some specific features, hedge garden, and center of hedge garden. Blank spaces indicate water and text placement. Tree symbols show exceptional specimens on east and west sides. The Morton Arboretum encompassed 813 acres at time of map. Drawing is in two pieces.
Extent: 2 sheets
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Confirmation from Old Maps (3.19500)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of an open book. It shows a drawing of an old map of the farm that later became the Arboretum.
Header: CONFIRMATION from old maps
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- text: An old map shows the location of the farmhouse and the spring house
- map illustration: a road extending from bottom to top, a stream extending from left to right, trees at top and right, and a small patch of farm land at center with a wall and two structures, one labeled "Solomon Mertz" and the other "Spring house"
- text, bottom right: FROM 1874 ATLAS OF DUPAGE COUNTY
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: Spring (3.19519)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Panel 2 of 4 with illustrations and informational text about the fungal disease cedar apple rust cycle and its effect on Red cedar and Hawthorn trees. Focus of this panel is on the disease cycle in spring, depicting the growth of a gall. Drawings feature Juniper twigs and galls, and a Red cedar tree.
Header: SPRING
Drawings and text, clockwise:
- Juniper twig and gall: GALL SHOWS CHARACTERISTIC DEPRESSIONS WITH ROUNDED PIMPLES
- Juniper twig and horned gall: SPORE HORNS PUSH OUT
- Juniper twig and gall with longer horns: HORNS BECOME JELLY-LIKE
- SPORES ARE CARRIED BY WIND TO
- CEDAR (right half image of a full-sized Red cedar)
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
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.23997)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
The art of scientific illustration [graphic] : Pinus strobus / Nancy Hart. (3.24018)
Date: 1977Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 sheet : commercial reproduction, b&w 46 x 61 cm.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24038)
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.
Alnus glutinosa = [graphic] black alder / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24077)
Date: 1975Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 46 cm., on board 43 x 66 cm. + 4 preliminary sketches (graphite, b&w 10 x 11 cm.)
Aesculus parviflora = [graphic] Bottlebrush buckeye / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24100)
Date: 1974Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 41 x 67 cm. + 5 preliminary sketches (graphite, b&w 28 x 36 cm.)
Illustrations for Events, News, Classes [graphic] : Winter 1990. (3.24126)
Date: 1990Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 9 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 22 x 28 cm. (largest).
Illustrations for Events, News, Classes [graphic] : Summer 1990. (3.24142)
Date: 1990Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 12 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 22 x 28 cm. (largest).
Illustrations for Events, News, Classes [graphic] : Spring 1989. (3.24161)
Date: 1989Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 13 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 22 x 28 cm. (largest).
Populus grandidentata [graphic] = big tooth aspen / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24177)
Date: 1992Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Bluebirds and branches [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24203)
Date: 1990sCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 7 drawings : graphite, pen and ink, b&w, 19 x 23 cm. and smaller + 1 digital print (card, b&w 22 x 14 cm., folded to 11 x 13.5 cm.).
Months of the year [graphic]. (3.24232)
Date: 1995Creator: Botts, Timothy R.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : calligraphy, color 28 x 19 cm. and 28 x 37 cm. + 2 graphite sketches (b&w 22 x 19 cm. and 22 x 36 cm.)
Calligraphy [graphic] : Shakespeare quote. (3.24248)
Date: 1964 – 1965Creator: Chirpe, Rodney.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 36 x 63 cm.
Castanea dentata = [graphic] American chestnut / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24266)
Date: 1981Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 25 x 37 cm., on sheet 47 x 61 cm.
Dirca palustris = [graphic] Atlantic leatherwood / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24282)
Date: 1976Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 44 x 63 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 31 x 23 cm.)
Populus grandidentata [graphic] = big tooth aspen / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24298)
Date: 1992Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Christmas party invitation [graphic]. (3.24314)
Date: 1969Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 24 x 20 cm., on board 28 x 22 cm.
Cornus florida = [graphic] Flowering dogwood / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24330)
Date: 1983Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on sheet 44 x 63 cm.+ 1 preliminary drawing (pen and ink, b&w 31 x 23 cm.)
Cauldron and wood fire [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24346)
Date: 1991Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 16 x 12 cm., on sheet 22 x 30 cm.
Flight of birds [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24362)
Date: 1969Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 14 x 21 cm., on sheet 16 x 27 cm. + 1 card (28 x 22 cm., folded to 15 x 22 cm.).
Eight illustrations for an article in The Morton Arboretum Quarterly [graphic] / NSHS. (3.24378)
Date: 1985Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 8 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 31 x 23 cm.
Green man & crest at Thornhill [graphic]. (3.24394)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, graphite, b&w 14 x 12 cm. image 19 x 19 cm., on sheet 28 x 36 cm.
Oaks (#1) (3.24411)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:Four different oak trees: swamp white oak, white oak, northern red oak, and bur oak, with a single leaf to the right of each tree. Tree name is pasted next to or below each tree. Drawn for a vote to choose the state tree by 5th grade students.
Extent: 1 drawing
Prunus sargenti = [graphic] Sargent's cherry / Nancy Shinn Hart Stieber. (3.24427)
Date: 1998Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 23 x 21 cm., on board 36 x 30 cm.
American hazelnut understory [graphic] : savanna design for visitor center / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24443)
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.).
People planting trees: two men planting a tree, child kneeling (3.24488)
Date: 1980 – 1990Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:Silhouette of two men planting a tree with bird perched in its branches, child kneeling beside tree.
Used for Arbor Day publications at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 drawing
Animals and birds [graphic] / N.S. Hart Stieber. (3.24520)
Date: 2000 – 2001Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 19 drawings : pen and ink, b&w, 19 x 23 cm. and smaller.
Animals and birds [graphic] / N.S. Hart Stieber. (3.24536)
Date: 2000 – 2001Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 19 drawings : pen and ink, b&w, 19 x 23 cm. and smaller.
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.
Alnus glutinosa [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24580)
Date: 1966Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Ostrya virginiana [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24596)
Date: 1965Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Maples from Europe and Asia (3.24612)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of five species of maple, created to accompany "The Maples of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show tree shape, including top, twigs, branches, and size, winged seeds, and leaves. Descriptive text gives details of tree structure (branching, bark, and trunk), habitat, seed ripening schedule, and leaf details including color and sinus structure.
Illustrations depicted from top to bottom:
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- round top; twigs green-brown; from Europe, Caucasia; ripe in Fall; green on both sides; broad; rounded sinuses; 7-lobed; pale yellow in Fall; milky juice
- Sycamore maple -- Acer pseudoplatanus
- spreading top; from Europe, W. Asia; bark scales off in thin flakes; ripe in Fall; hanging in clusters like grapes; toothed margin; green on both sides; acute sinuses
- Amur maple -- Acer ginnala
- shrub to small tree; slender smooth branches; from China, Japan; ripe in late summer, red; long central lobe; toothed margin; yellow, orange, red in Fall
- Hedge maple -- Acer campestre
- shrub to small tree; from Europe, W. Asia; flattened nutlet; ripe in Fall; not toothed; milky juice
- Japanese maple -- Acer palmatum
- shrub; from Korea, Japan; ripe in Fall; usually red in Spring fading to green; 5 to 9 lobed
Extent: 1 sheet
Spruce Cones (3.24628)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
- Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
- Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet