Best known for her work at Princeton, Yale, and Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand (1872--1959), the niece of Edith Wharton, was one of the greatest of landscape designers. She synthesized the best of European traditions to create a uniquely American style.
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Best known for her work at Princeton, Yale, and Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand (1872-1959), the niece of Edith Wharton, was among the greatest of landscape designers. She synthesized the best European traditions to create a uniquely American style.
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BY DINT OF IMAGINATION AND CRAFT, historians have moved women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the shadows of a forgotten past into the illuminated panorama of formal history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
campus plantings, campus landscaping, naturalistic garden, wall plantings, rustic arbor, central quadrangle, public landscapes, campus work, informal gardens, landscape architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dumbarton Oaks, Beatrix Farrand, Harvard University, New York, Department of Landscape Architecture, Documents Collection, Courtesy of University of California, Graduate College, Reef Point, Seal Harbor, Beatrix Jones, University of Chicago, Alan Ward, Gertrude Jekyll, Bar Harbor, Edith Wharton, Pierpont Morgan, Princeton University, Mildred Bliss, Arnold Arboretum, United States, Willard Straight, California Institute of Technology, Crafts Movement, Forsythia Dell New!
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BY DINT OF IMAGINATION AND CRAFT, historians have moved women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the shadows of a forgotten past into the illuminated panorama of formal history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
campus plantings, campus landscaping, naturalistic garden, wall plantings, rustic arbor, central quadrangle, public landscapes, campus work, informal gardens, landscape architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dumbarton Oaks, Beatrix Farrand, Harvard University, New York, Department of Landscape Architecture, Documents Collection, Courtesy of University of California, Graduate College, Reef Point, Seal Harbor, Beatrix Jones, University of Chicago, Alan Ward, Gertrude Jekyll, Bar Harbor, Edith Wharton, Pierpont Morgan, Princeton University, Mildred Bliss, Arnold Arboretum, United States, Willard Straight, California Institute of Technology, Crafts Movement, Forsythia Dell New!
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- Wood and Garden by Gertrude Jekyll on 4 pages
- Wood And Garden by Gertrude Jekyll on 4 pages
- Long Island (America and Her People) by Bill Harris on page 25, and Back Matter
- Edith Wharton: A Biography by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis on page 5, and Back Matter
- Italian Villas And Their Gardens (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture) by Edith Wharton on page 15, and Back Matter
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- The Campus Guide: Yale University, an Architectural Tour by Patrick L. Pinnell in Back Matter
- Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature (Gender and American Culture) by Vera Norwood in Back Matter
- Pioneers of American Landscape Design (Professional Architecture) by Charles A. Birnbaum on page 125
- Caltech's Architectural Heritage, From Spanish Tile to Modern Stone by Romy Wyllie in Back Matter
- The Modern University and its Discontents: The Fate of Newman's Legacies in Britain and America by Sheldon Rothblatt on page 78
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