Week 1: Tree Images for Docent Course 2020

This photograph depicts a view looking up into the thick canopy of a tree.
Bernard Descamps
Untitled
gelatin silver print on paper
9 1/2 in x 7 5/16 in (24.1 cm x 18.6 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);9 1/2 in x 7 5/16 in (24.2 cm x 18.6 cm);6 1/8 in x 5 15/16 in (15.5 cm x 15 cm)
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a watercolor painting in a vertical format painted in tones of blue and green. It shows a large tree, with a black trunk and branches and without any leaves, in front of two houses. The sky is painted in a bright blue.
Jean Paul Slusser
Untitled (Tree)
20th century
watercolor | paper
Gift of Rev. Edward and Jan Slusser
2009/1.541
This scene has two trees and some logs jutting vertically out of the ground in the foreground, with some buildings and a figure walking in the background. The tree on the left in the foreground has a split trunk, and we can see some roots. The four logs are spaced fairly evenly in the center of the foreground, and the second tree is on the right in the foreground and leans to the right. Some leaves can be seen on the trees at the top of the scene. The ground in the background is white, and the figure walks in front of the buildings in the center right of the scene. The main and tallest roofline of the buildings is in the center of the background.
Saitō Kiyoshi
Nara (D)
color woodblock print on paper
17 15/16 in x 23 3/4 in (45.5 cm x 60.3 cm)
Gift of Dr. Lawrence Preuss
A print of a block of wood diagonally positioned under an etched black line.
Tom Marioni
Tree
hand ground etching with a thin piece of veneer on paper
16 3/4 in. x 25 5/8 in. ( 42.55 cm x 65.09 cm )
Gift of the Estate of Anne L. McGrew

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Untitled (2000/2.132)
Untitled (Tree) (2009/1.541)
Nara (D) (1986/2.67)
Tree (2012/1.277)

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