Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview

Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture
Stephen Goddard, curator
October 30, 2010–January 2, 2011
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
Ansel Adams
Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern California,
circa 1960
Ansel Adams
Sterculia snowII Lesquereux (type) (fossil leaf),
Cretaceous period, collected mid to late 1800s
Karl Blossfeldt
Eryngium Bourgatii Mannetreau,
circa 1926–1928
Mildred Bryant Brooks
Among Branches,
1941
George Elbert Burr
David Byrne
Being There,
2004
David Byrne
David Byrne
Charles Merrick Capps
Mountain Cottonwoods,
1957
Charles Chaplin
Edge of the Forest,
1965
Charles Chaplin
In the New Forest Glade,
1962
Linda Connor
Howard Norton Cook
Wind in the Elms,
1926
Wiliam Alfred Delamotte
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
White of the Eye,
1979
Xu Bing; Sophia Gakii
untitled (tree),
2008
George Grosz
Wilhelm Hammerschmidt
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Copper Beech,
1985
Francois Houtin
Abecedaire,
2004
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
David Johnson
Oak with Man in Hammock,
1883
Rockwell Kent
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder
Pok Chi Lau
Pok Chi Lau
Pok Chi Lau
Mark Leithauser
Birches,
1980
Mark Leithauser
The Little Pigeon,
1981
Valerie Lueth
Programmable Do-Gooders,
2004
F. O. Marvin
Sketch Club Feed,
1888
Roger Medearis
Native Oak,
1979
Mary Nimmo Moran
Kenji Nakahashi
Trimming,
1987
Joan Nelson; Cirrus Editions Ltd.
Ad Reinhardt; Thomas B. Hess; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Donald Resnick
Shoreline,
circa 1997
Donald Resnick
Woods/Morning,
1998
Birger Sandzén
Giant Cedars,
1922
Birger Sandzén
William Sharp; John Fisk Allen
Klaus Staeck
Doug Starn; Mike Starn
Structure of Thought 15,
2001–2005
Tanaka Ryōhei
Trees #3,
1974, Showa period (1926–1989)
Shigeki Tomura
untitled,
1979
Jan Toorop
Jerry Norman Uelsmann
Apocalypse II,
1967
Hieronymus Cock; Jan and/or Lucas van Doetecum; Master of the Small Landscapes
Village Street,
1559–1561
Jacob van Ruisdael
The Cottage on the Hill,
1650s
Franz von Stuck
Forellenweiher (Trout Pond),
circa 1890
Carleton Emmons Watkins
Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove,
circa 1859
Grant Wood; Associated American Artists; George Charles Miller
Tree Planting Group,
1937
Württemberg Metal Factory
dessert fork,
circa 1905
Yellow-Breasted Bowerbird
bower,
date unknown
Pok Chi Lau