Newberry said he had long been a fan of Mondrian’s work ... in Mondrian’s 1912 “Bloeiende Appelboom” (“Blooming Apple Tree”), a painting in the same series, the branch diameter scaling ...

Beside a blue fence in the back of the East Fourth Street Community Garden in Kensington, a skinny, leafless little tree pokes optimistically ... of the School of Art at Syracuse University.