Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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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
Sterculia snowII Lesquereux (type) (fossil leaf), Cretaceous period, collected mid to late 1800s
Karl Blossfeldt
Eryngium Bourgatii Mannetreau, circa 1926–1928
Mildred Bryant Brooks
George Elbert Burr
David Byrne
Being There, 2004
David Byrne
Charles Merrick Capps
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
Howard Norton Cook
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
Xu Bing; Sophia Gakii
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Copper Beech, 1985
Francois Houtin
Abecedaire, 2004
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
David Johnson
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder
Mark Leithauser
Birches, 1980
Mark Leithauser
Valerie Lueth
F. O. Marvin
Roger Medearis
Native Oak, 1979
Kenji Nakahashi
Trimming, 1987
Joan Nelson; Cirrus Editions Ltd.
Ad Reinhardt; Thomas B. Hess; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Donald Resnick
Shoreline, circa 1997
Donald Resnick
Birger Sandzén
Giant Cedars, 1922
Birger Sandzén
William Sharp; John Fisk Allen
Doug Starn; Mike Starn
Tanaka Ryōhei
Trees #3, 1974, Showa period (1926–1989)
Shigeki Tomura
untitled, 1979
Jerry Norman Uelsmann
Hieronymus Cock; Jan and/or Lucas van Doetecum; Master of the Small Landscapes
Village Street, 1559–1561
Jacob van Ruisdael
Franz von Stuck
Carleton Emmons Watkins
Grant Wood; Associated American Artists; George Charles Miller
Württemberg Metal Factory
dessert fork, circa 1905
Yellow-Breasted Bowerbird
bower, date unknown