Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect

Presented by Judith Tankard

About Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect:

Born into a prominent New York family, Beatrix Farrand designed lavish gardens for the leaders of society, including the Harknesses, the Rockefellers, and the Blisses. Ultimately, her portfolio extended to college and university campuses, including Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, and public gardens, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden among them. Her best-known design is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., originally a private residence with extensive grounds and now a research center for Harvard University.

Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession is widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public. A long-awaited updated edition of the 2009 definitive monograph, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect chronicles the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.

About Judith Tankard:

Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, preservation consultant, and the author or co-author of ten books on historic gardens and garden designers, most recently Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Other books include Ellen Shipman and the American Garden (winner of the J. B. Jackson Book Prize) and three works on Gertrude Jekyll. Tankard taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University for more than twenty years and served as a board member of the Beatrix Farrand Society. She is a frequent lecturer on landscape history and a contributor to the British journal Hortus.

About the virtual lecture:

A zoom link will be sent directly to the email address used for registration in advance of the lecture. Please do not share this link with others. Lectures are live and will not be recorded. Please register for this event by 3/10/23.

Books:

Copies of Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect are available online, for 20% off with code PHAIDON20, and in Fernwood’s gift shop, where members receive 10% off.

Cost: $25 ($20 members) 

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