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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

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

Sterculia snowII Lesquereux (type) (fossil leaf)

Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), Eryngium Bourgatii Mannetreau

Mildred Bryant Brooks (1903–1995), Among Branches

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

David Byrne (born 1952), Being There

David Byrne (born 1952), The Evolution of Category

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

Charles Merrick Capps (1898–1981), Mountain Cottonwoods

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jacques Hnizdovsky, Copper Beech

Francois Houtin, Abecedaire

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Leithauser (born 1950), Birches

Mark Leithauser (born 1950), The Little Pigeon

Valerie Lueth (born 1979), Programmable Do-Gooders

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

Roger Medearis (1920–2001), Native Oak

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

Kenji Nakahashi (1947–2017), Trimming

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

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

Donald Resnick (1928–2008), Shoreline

Donald Resnick (1928–2008), Woods/Morning

Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Giant Cedars

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

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

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

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

Tanaka Ryōhei (1933–1999), Trees #3

Shigeki Tomura, untitled

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

Jerry Norman Uelsmann (1934–2022), Apocalypse II

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

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

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

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

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

Württemberg Metal Factory (founded 1853), dessert fork

Yellow-Breasted Bowerbird, bower

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