Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture

Exhibition

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Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture
Stephen Goddard, curator
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

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

Sterculia snowII Lesquereux (type) (fossil leaf)
Cretaceous period, collected mid to late 1800s
Wiliam Alfred Delamotte (1775–1863), untitled (resting men and dogs under a large tree)
Wiliam Alfred Delamotte (1775–1863)
1802
Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (active 1850-1869), Arbre de la Vierge, pres du Caire (Tree of the Virgin, near Cairo)
Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (active 1850-1869)
circa 1860
Jacques Hnizdovsky, Copper Beech
Jacques Hnizdovsky
1985
Francois Houtin, Abecedaire
Francois Houtin
2004
David Johnson (1827–1908), Oak with Man in Hammock
David Johnson (1827–1908)
1883
Valerie Lueth (born 1979), Programmable Do-Gooders
Valerie Lueth (born 1979)
2004
Joan Nelson (born 1958); Cirrus Editions Ltd. (founded 1970), untitled (after Edward Hicks)
Joan Nelson (born 1958); Cirrus Editions Ltd. (founded 1970)
1993
Doug Starn (born 1961); Mike Starn (born 1961), Structure of Thought 15
Doug Starn (born 1961); Mike Starn (born 1961)
2001–2005
Tanaka Ryōhei (1933–1999), Trees #3
1974, Showa period (1926–1989)
Shigeki Tomura, untitled
Shigeki Tomura
1979
Württemberg Metal Factory (founded 1853), dessert fork
Württemberg Metal Factory (founded 1853)
circa 1905
Yellow-Breasted Bowerbird, bower
Yellow-Breasted Bowerbird
date unknown