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Clayton, associate curator of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, introduces this anthology with a succinct history of the literature of amateur gardening and of gardening in mainstream magazines. The 59 articles she has chosen from popular pre-World War II titles such as The House Beautiful and Country Life in America cover a broad range of topics. There are literary essays by well-known professionals as well as more practical ones by amateur gardeners whose advice is often still useful. The somewhat artificial organization is by chapters ranging from "A Year in the Garden" to "Formal, Italian Gardens and the Use of Architectural Features and Furnishings." Clayton provides capsule biographies of the authors and places each selection in its historical context. Reprints of the black-and-white illustrations, plus color plates of some of the magazine covers, add to the reader's pleasure. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.
-Daniel Starr, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Washington Post, March 9, 2000
Virginia Tuttle Clayton, an art historian and associate curator of old-master prints at the National Gallery of Art, has spent the past decade studying this revolutionary marriage of garden journalism and home gardening. It was in this period that the Ladies Home Journal, House & Garden and House Beautiful were launched and collectively reached millions of households.
Clayton, associate curator of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, introduces this anthology with a succinct history of the literature of amateur gardening and of gardening in mainstream magazines. The 59 articles she has chosen from popular pre-World War II titles such as The House Beautiful and Country Life in America cover a broad range of topics. There are literary essays by well-known professionals as well as more practical ones by amateur gardeners whose advice is often still useful. The somewhat artificial organization is by chapters ranging from "A Year in the Garden" to "Formal, Italian Gardens and the Use of Architectural Features and Furnishings." Clayton provides capsule biographies of the authors and places each selection in its historical context. Reprints of the black-and-white illustrations, plus color plates of some of the magazine covers, add to the reader's pleasure. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.
-Daniel Starr, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Washington Post, March 9, 2000
Virginia Tuttle Clayton, an art historian and associate curator of old-master prints at the National Gallery of Art, has spent the past decade studying this revolutionary marriage of garden journalism and home gardening. It was in this period that the Ladies Home Journal, House & Garden and House Beautiful were launched and collectively reached millions of households.
Until World War II, these and other magazines, many now defunct, "provide a remarkable record of our largely forgotten past achievements as a nation of amateur gardeners," writes Clayton, editor and creative mind behind a new book on the topic, "The Once and Future Gardener: Garden Writing From the Golden Age of Magazines."
Scholarly reviews of gardening during this Golden Age have focused on the estate building of important landscape architects for wealthy clients. The magazine articles--reprinted in the books--flesh out the rest of the story, the gardening interests, skills and needs of the ordinary American, Clayton argues.
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- Forest & Garden: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949 by Melanie Louise Simo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)