Birch Tree in a Landscape

Paula Modersohn-Becker

1899

Oil on composite board

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Two birch trees with white bark dominate the foreground of a landscape painting. A smaller, autumnal tree stands to the left, with a distant horizon line under a pale blue sky. Two birch trees with white bark dominate the foreground of a landscape painting. A smaller, autumnal tree stands to the left, with a distant horizon line under a pale blue sky. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Wilhelm Winterstein through the Acquisitions Committee of the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum in honor of James Cuno on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Museum