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 are 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.

*Copies of Tankard’s book will be available for purchase at Fernwood’s gift shop.

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.

Cost: $25 ($20 members)

*Receive a $5 discount when you register for all three virtual lectures at the same time (applied at checkout).

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