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Arb/Art Double Take: Poplars & Bazille’s Bathers - Arnold Arboretum

We’re back with another Double Take 🖼️/🌳 between Harvard’s Museum of Art and Harvard’s Museum of Trees—aka the Arnold Arboretum. This time, we're looking at two pear trees, worlds apart yet linked by time. In 1903, Gustav Klimt painted Pear Tree, a luminous vision of gold, green, and light, now at the Harvard Art Museums. Just a few miles away, the Arnold Arboretum tends another pear from around the same era, one grown from seed that was collected in Japan in 1918. "The Arboretum’s living coll