Winter Trees 2021 | Spencer Museum of Art

Winter Trees 2021

We're curating a community collection of winter trees to celebrate the season. Send us your images along with attribution for the work you are sharing and any other details you’d like to include. We will continue accepting new submissions through December 22.

For inspiration you can browse last year's collection of images and listen to a recording of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost below.

"November 2018, Mono Cliffs Provincial Park, Ontario, CA. Day hike through a snowy stand of beech trees." — Marcie Miller Gross

"November 2018, Mono Cliffs, Ontario, CA. A day hike through an ancient round of cedar trees in the snow." — Marcie Miller Gross

Adina Duke

Champion Persimmon — Adina Duke

"Winter Ramble" — Adina Duke

"Tangled" West Jackson, Mississippi — Shelia Bonner

Berryton, Kan., January 1, 2021 — Kris Emmons

Berryton, Kan., January 1, 2021 — Kris Emmons

Berryton, Kan., January 1, 2021 — Kris Emmons

"Cardinals, 2021, Stained glass" — Eden Detrixhe

"Standing Tall in a Kansas Field" — Lois Orth-Lopes

"Kansas Farm at Sunset" — Lois Orth-Lopes

"Hawks on the Kaw" — Lois Orth-Lopes

"Lean-to at the summit of Taylor Mountain." — Steve Goddard

"Victim of the 2020 East Troublesome Fire." — Steve Goddard

Janie Allen

Rigoberto Garcia

Richard Klocke

Saralyn Reece Hardy

"City tree at night." — Ryan Waggoner

"View from an artist's studio, February 2019 (this Marot Castel was right across from my home studio in Topeka, Ks. I now live in Lawrence)" — Shirley Akers

“From Skinners Nursery, Topeka, Ks while out scouting views to paint of local grain elevators. Was planning to do small watercolor series at the time. March 2020.” — Shirley Akers

"Snow on branches, overlooking Potter Lake, Lawrence, KS." — Joshua L. Rosenbloom

"Trees and fields near Ames, IA." — Joshua L. Rosenbloom

"Results of early Spring snowstorm, Lawrence, KS." — Joshua L. Rosenbloom

"Sparse silhouette against a winter sunset. Haskell 12/11/2021." — Sheila Orth

A painting titled "Tree in Winter" by the 20th century Midwest regional abstract artist Paul Lowell Emerson, and of which he wrote, "A tree is more interesting in winter." Submitted by Rob Hudson.

"Frosted Top, 2021" — Kevin Boatright

"Cones and Needles, 2015" — Kevin Boatright

Bonnie Johnson

Bonnie Johnson

“An image from my project, 'Illuminated Nearby Tree.' The branches were progressively filled in with stories about trees by visitors to the Percolator.” — Dave Loewenstein

“An image from my project, 'Illuminated Nearby Tree.' The branches were progressively filled in with stories about trees by visitors to the Percolator.” — Dave Loewenstein

Winter trees around Baldwin City — Rebecca D. McMillen

Winter trees around Baldwin City — Rebecca D. McMillen

Winter trees around Baldwin City — Rebecca D. McMillen

Mike McCaffrey

“Along the Kansas River at Lawrence” — Rick Mitchell

Photo featuring a snow covered Kwanzan Cherry Tree in the backyard of my Capitol Hill, Washington, DC home! The tree is as beautiful in the Winter as it is in full blossom during the Spring!" — Clarence S Haynes, KU Class of ‘71

"This majestic willow oak is in our neighbor's front yard. I think the tree is at least 150 years old--it is about 4' diameter. In the winter the beautiful structure of the tree is easier to see." — Carol Ann Brown

Jane Bell

"My mother's neighbor's home just after snowfall." — Joy Williams

"I moved back to the Midwest in 2015. When the trees lost their leaves that first autumn, I thought the bald cypress, which I believed was evergreen, had died. Little did I know it had simply become a perch for the Northern Cardinal! Now I look forward to its spare winter beauty, adorned by colorful living ornaments." — Gwen Adams

"Sunrise 12/20/2020" — Sheila Orth

"Sunset Lawrence, KS 12/27/2020" — Sheila Orth

"Christmas on the farm 2020." — Sheila Orth