Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm Date: 1911-1917

Date: 1911-1917

He also worked as a musician

Creator: Winslow Homer

some of whom were his students

masculine elegance that resists trends

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm Date: 1911-1917Look closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in