Two months before she died, Alma Thomas invited the art critic Eleanor Munro to her red brick house in Washington, D.C.’s ...

The Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles.

Trees depicted ... species and works of art is small and selective, therefore it’s not possible to draw strong conclusions. The authors studied a series of works by abstract painter Mondrian ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th ...

Mitchell Newberry has published research on tree branching supported by University of Michigan and University of New Mexico. He volunteers with Cool It Burque, a tree-planting group in Albuquerque ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees. Trees are ...