Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24015)
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. (3.24016)
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. (3.24017)
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. (3.24023)
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. (3.24024)
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. (3.24025)
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. (3.24026)
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. (3.24027)
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. (3.24028)
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. (3.24029)
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. (3.24030)
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. (3.24031)
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.
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.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24062)
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.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24063)
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.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24064)
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.
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.
Three oak leaves (3.24408)
Date: circa 1970Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:One leaf each of red oak, white oak, and burr oak.
Extent: 1 drawing
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
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
White oak = [graphic] Quercus alba / N.S.H. Stieber. (3.24416)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 36 x 36 cm.
Logotype designs for The Morton Arboretum [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24492)
Date: 1972Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 3 drawings : pen and ink, b&w image size a.) 16 x 13 cm. b. and c.) 14 x 12 cm., on sheets 28 x 21 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.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24511)
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.
Tree Portrait: Quercus alba (3.24586)
Date: 1973Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Description:Tree Portrait: Quercus alba (white oak)
Scale drawing of mature and immature trees, flowering and fruiting branches, cross sections and details of flower and fruit. Tree age and height above tree images.
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins (3.24610)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting pistillate and staminate flowers, staminate catkins, fruits, and associated outline of four 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 Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins
(depicted from left to right, top to bottom)
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
Extent: 1 sheet
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 3 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24653)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 3, excluding 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 #1: Four Kinds of Oaks
Identifying characteristics for oak trees and leaves illustrated to the right for Bur Oak, White Oak, Red Oak, Northern Pin Oak.
Tree stump #2: A Limestone Boulder
Identifying characteristics for trilobites and crinoids illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #3: A Granite Boulder
Identifying characteristics for granite boulder illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #4: Wild Black Raspberries
Identifying characteristics for wild black raspberries leaves, stem, flower, and fruit illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 12 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24669)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 12, excluding 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 #29: Four Kinds of Acorns
Identifying characteristics for "red," "northern pin," "bur," and "white" acorns as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #30: Hepatica Leaves
Identifying characteristics for leaves, flower, and berry including a cube shape illustrated to the right - appears to have been replaced with new illustration of leaves on separate card that has become unglued (see below).
Tree stump #31: Blackberries
Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right - appears to have been replaced with new illustration of leaves, flower, and berry on separate card that has become unglued (see below).
Tree stump #32: A White Oak Tradmark
Illustration of a White Oak trunk with a band of bark that has been formed due to fungus.
Tree stump #33: Young Sugar Maples
Identifying characteristics for leaves and seeds illustrated to the right.
A cutout illustration depicting leaf characteristics for the Hepatica and leaf, flower, and berry characteristics for blackberries originally adhered to board has detached and is housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Twelve Oaks (3.24795)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of leaf, acorn, and twigs with buds for twelve different types of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks Of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings are divided into two categories and depicted in columns with descriptive text.
Header: TWELVE OAKS
Leaves, acorns, and twigs as depicted in two categories, from left to right, top to bottom:
Category 1: The Black Oak Group
- Eastern Red Oak - Quercus borealis
- leaf - dull above, glabrous beneath, lobes narrowing toward margin, sinuses about half-way to mid-rib.
- acorn - shallow cup, saucer-shaped, with glossy tight scales, white kernel
- twig with buds - buds red brown, not angled; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Northern Pin - Quercus ellipsoidalis
- leaf - lustrous, deeply lobed, lobes widening toward margin, base truncate or broad-cunate, 5 to 7 lobed
- acorn - top-shaped cup, enclosing half of nut, yellow kernel
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, obtuse at tip; twigs red-brown
- Black - Quercus velutina
- leaf - leathery, thick, petioles yellow, sinuses varying from shallow to deep
- acorn - bowl-like cup, scales form fringe at margin, yellow kernel
- twig with bids - buds pale woolly, strongly 5-sided; twigs red-brown, lenticels conspicuous
- Pin - Quercus palustris
- leaf - thin, lustrous, 5 to 7 lobed, few-toothed, slender petioles, base cuneate
- acorn - saucer-shaped cup, scales with free tips, nut often striped
- twigs with buds - side buds at wide angle; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Shingle - Quercus imbricaria
- leaf - lustrous above, pubescent below, persistent in Winter
- acorn - stalked cup, bowl-like, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown smooth; twigs smooth, gray-brown
- Willow - Quercus phellos
- leaf - lustrous, nearly sessile, acute at both ends
- acorn - talked cup, shallow, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown; twigs fine
- White - Quercus alba
- leaf - glabrous, with deep sinuses, often persistent in winter
- acorn - bowl-like cup, with thickened warty scales, nut edible
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, smooth; twigs red-brown, later ashy-gray; lenticels pale, conspicuous
- Bur - Quercus macrocarpa
- leaf - usually with "wasp-waist" - thick, smooth above, pale-pubescent beneath
- acorn - cup fringed, covering half or more of nut, larger in South
- twig with buds - buds pale-woolly, gray-tan; twigs gray, later corky-ridged
- English - Quercus robur
- leaf - auricled base, nearly sessile
- acorn - cup enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of nut, long-stemmed
- twig with buds - buds, brown; side buds divergent; twigs brown
- Chinquapin - Quercus muehlenbergii
- leaf - thick, shiny above, pubescent beneath, somewhat sharply-toothed, rounded base, slender petiole
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thin, scales indistinct
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown; twigs orange-brown
- Basket - Quercus michauxii
- leaf - crenate margin, pale-pubescent beneath, cunate base, 10 to 14 pairs of teeth
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thickened, scales wedge-shaped
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown, twigs orange-brown
- Swamp White - Quercus bicolor
- leaf - thick, firm, coarsely-toothed, shining above, pale-fomentose beneath, 6 to 10 pairs of teeth, often persistent in winter
- acorn - usually paired, cup bowl-shaped, slightly-fringed, long-stalked
- twigs with buds - buds brown; twigs yellow-brown, with pale, raised lenticels
Extent: 1 sheet
Oaks of the Arboretum (3.24796)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of five species of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full tree outline in winter. Each oak is accompanied with descriptive text including its scientific name, soil requirements, branch, and bark descriptions.
Trees and text depicted from left to right, top to bottom:
- Eastern Red Oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- smooth upper parts; acute-angled branching, dark ridged bark, on well-drained upland
- Pin Oak -- Quercus palustris
- straight central shaft; payramidal shape; short spur-like twigs; dark ridged bark; in moist lowland
- Northern Pin Oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- smooth upper parts; leaves persistent in winter; deflected dead lower branches; on well-drained upland
- White Oak -- Quercus alba
- horizontal branching; leaves persistent in winter; scaly whitish bark; on well-drained upland
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- gnarled branches; corky ridges; gray, ridged bark; on rich bottom-land
Extent: 1 sheet
White oak trunk section [graphic] / N. Hart Stieber. (3.24838)
Date: 1991Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 5 x 9 cm., on board 10 x 16 cm.
Leaf Prints: White Oak (3.27721)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of white oak leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Oak white
- Quercus alba
Extent: 1 sheet
Notecards: Views of the Arboretum (3.27751)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:Nine notecards showing 5 different views of The Morton Arboretum. Notecards are black ink etchings on cream paper, folded, with a deckle edge, accompanied by nine matching cream envelopes with a deckle edge and housed in a two-sided, gray leatherette portfolio with an orange paper tie. All notecards are blank with the exception of one which has a letter written inside.
Text in blue on front of the portfolio: THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
Title on the bottom left and The Morton Arboretum on the bottom right of each notecard:
- From the hedge collection [1 card]
- Illustration depicts stone steps leading up to hedge collection and evergreen trees
- Along a small stream [3 cards]
- Illustration depicts a stream, bridge, tress, and shrubbery in winter
- Thornhill Building [2 cards]
- Illustration depicts view up the hill to the Thornhill building, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background
- Along walk to Thornhill Building [2 cards, one containing correspondence regarding plans for a field trip]
- Illustration depicts trees and flowers in forest
- White oak [1 card]
- Illustration depicts a winter white oak in forest with shrubbery
Extent: 9 notecards with envelopes
Canada jay = Corvus canadensis. Linn. (3.29155)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 33 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.