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Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture

Stephen Goddard, curator

March 5, 2009–January 2, 2011

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Trees and other Ramifications offers an open-ended look at some of the many ways that trees are meaningful to humanity and important in the natural world.

Works of art

F. O. Marvin (1852–1915), Sketch Club Feed

Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Giant Cedars

Jacques Callot (1592–1635), La Pendaison (The Hanging)

Jerry Norman Uelsmann (1934–2022), Apocalypse II

Carleton Emmons Watkins (1829–1916), Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove

Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), Eryngium Bourgatii Mannetreau

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), Bearded Man with Tree, Venice, CA

Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Plant Trees Avert Nuclear Peril

Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 or 1629–1682), The Cottage on the Hill

George Charles Miller (1894–1965); Grant Wood (1891–1942); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Tree Planting Group

Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990), White of the Eye

David Johnson (1827–1908), Oak with Man in Hammock

Kenji Nakahashi (1947–2017), Trimming

Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Brook with Cottonwood Trees

Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern California

Mildred Bryant Brooks (1903–1995), Among Branches

Rockwell Kent (1882–1971), Bringing Home the Christmas Tree

Mary Nimmo Moran (1842–1899), The 'Home Sweet Home' of John Payne, East Hampton

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder (1759–1835), Man and a Small Boy in a Wood

Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (active 1850-1869), Arbre de la Vierge, pres du Caire (Tree of the Virgin, near Cairo)

Württemberg Metal Factory (founded 1853), dessert fork

Joan Nelson (born 1958); Cirrus Editions Ltd. (founded 1970), untitled (after Edward Hicks)

George Elbert Burr (1859–1939), Old Cedars and Spanish Peaks

Robert Kipniss (born 1931), Spring Secrets

Mark Leithauser (born 1950), The Little Pigeon

Mark Leithauser (born 1950), Birches

Tanaka Ryōhei (1933–1999), Trees #3

Jan Toorop (1858–1928), Dorpshuizen or De Dode Boom (Village Houses or The Dead Tree)

William Sharp (1803–1875); John Fisk Allen (1785–1865), untitled (under side of a leaf)

Hieronymus Cock (circa 1510–1570); Jan and/or Lucas van Doetecum (active 1554–1580); Master of the Small Landscapes (active mid 1500s), Village Street

Franz von Stuck (1863–1928), Forellenweiher (Trout Pond)

Donald Resnick (1928–2008), Shoreline

Donald Resnick (1928–2008), Woods/Morning

Wiliam Alfred Delamotte (1775–1863), untitled (resting men and dogs under a large tree)

Charles Merrick Capps (1898–1981), Mountain Cottonwoods

George Grosz (1893–1959), Der Lebensbaum (The Tree of Life)

Doug Starn (born 1961); Mike Starn (born 1961), Structure of Thought 15

Linda Connor (born 1944), Western Courtyard, Ta Prohm, Cambodia

Charles Chaplin (1907–1987), Edge of the Forest

Charles Chaplin (1907–1987), In the New Forest Glade

Jacques Hnizdovsky, Copper Beech

Francois Houtin, Abecedaire

Roger Medearis (1920–2001), Native Oak

Shigeki Tomura, untitled

Pok Chi Lau (born 1950), Tree Farm, Zibo, Shantung Province, China

Pok Chi Lau (born 1950), title unknown (tree planting)

Pok Chi Lau (born 1950), Lone Lychee Tree, Shenzhen, China

Sterculia snowII Lesquereux (type) (fossil leaf)

Isidore of Seville, Hec est arbor Consanguineitatis (Here is the Tree of Blood Relationships) from Etymologiae. Liber Ethymologiarum Isidori Hyspalensis Ep[iscop]i.

Bartolomeo Da Grado, Della famiglia Montalto, libri III, scritti da Giuseppe Aurelio de Gennnaro...

Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Tree of Life

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny. From the German. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.

Ramon Llull, Arbor Moralis (Moral Tree)

Ramon Llull, Arbol Imaginal (Imaginative Tree)

Lindley Eddy, The Pillars of Hercules and Thus Are Giants Murdered

Michael Wolgemut (circa 1435–1519), Linea Regum Egipti Ptholomeus Dionisus (Lineage of Ptolemy XII, Dionysus) from Liber chronicarum.

David Byrne (born 1952), Arboretum

Valerie Lueth (born 1979), Programmable Do-Gooders

J. Augustus Knapp, A Fresh Rhizome of Cimifuga Racemosa

Robert Bernard, Essai d’une Distribution Généalogique des Sciences et des Arts Principaux (Essay on a Genealogical Distribution of the Primary Sciences and Arts)

Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967); Thomas B. Hess; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, How to Look at Modern Art in America

Xu Bing (born 1955); Sophia Gakii (born 1998), untitled (tree)

Klaus Staeck (born 1938), Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen (And new Life blossoms from the ruins)

Harold Lukens Doolittle (1883–1974), What is man that thou art mindful of him? Psalm 8, 4

Yellow-Breasted Bowerbird, bower

Howard Norton Cook (1901–1980), Wind in the Elms

David Byrne (born 1952), Winnebago Trainspotters in the Universe

David Byrne (born 1952), The Evolution of Category

David Byrne (born 1952), Being There

Interactive Tree of Life, Circular Rendering of the Phylogenetic Tree of Life, image generated 2009 ink jet print of a still image captured from the Interactive Tree of Life

Pok Chi Lau (born 1950), Trees sheltering tombs, Shenzhen, China

Events

March 5, 2009

Social

Spring @ the Spencer

6:30–8:00PM

April 18, 2009

Workshop

Tree Personalities

10:30AM–12:30PM

April 18, 2009

Workshop

Tree Personalities

1:30–3:30PM

April 23, 2009

Social

SMA Student Night: Art on the Green

6:00–8:00PM

April 28, 2009

Activity

Trees and Other Ramifications

May 2, 2009

Activity

Spring Arts & Culture Festival

1:00–5:00PM

Gallery 317 Central Court, Front Lawn

May 6, 2009

Performance

Makoto Nakura, marimba, performs The Wood and Forests Project

7:00–8:00PM

Gallery 317 Central Court