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The image features a large tree viewed from a lower angle, focusing on its sprawling branches. The background shows a row of smaller trees or shrubs below the main tree's silhouette. The artwork utilizes a textured style resembling charcoal or heavy graphite strokes, creating depth. The color scheme is predominantly black and gray with light highlights, emphasizing contrast and details. The sky above is depicted with a stippled technique, complementing the central tree's prominence in the scene.
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The image features a large tree viewed from a lower angle, focusing on its sprawling branches. The background shows a row of smaller trees or shrubs below the main tree's silhouette. The artwork utilizes a textured style resembling charcoal or heavy graphite strokes, creating depth. The color scheme is predominantly black and gray with light highlights, emphasizing contrast and details. The sky above is depicted with a stippled technique, complementing the central tree's prominence in the scene.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Birches

Lesser Ury

Date
c. 1920
Medium
lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 27 × 19 cm (10 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 30.6 × 22.8 cm (12 1/16 × 9 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2012.92.491
Credit line
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Tree
  • Nature
Provenance

Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); Gift to NGA, 2012.

Inscription

below image, at left, in graphite: 3/30 L. Ury; below image, at left, in graphite, by later hand: 2; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: 8 x 9

NGA object ID 153902. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.