Judith is also a stalwart regional representative and garden host in our Open Days program and a frequent speaker at our educational events. Judith Tankard was a Board member and Vice-President of the Society and is advising us on this tour. Desert Island, where Farrand lived and worked in the last part of her life, and where the Beatrix Farrand Society is located. The Beatrix Farrand Society is a federally recognized nonprofit Maine corporation dedicated to fostering the art and science of horticulture and landscape. Later this summer, subscribers to our Society of Fellows garden-study tour to Maine will visit Mt. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House. She was the only woman among eleven founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (ne Jones J February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect. “It was very unusual for a woman to get any kind of commission for anything other than a ‘flower garden,’ whereas the men took on the great missions of ‘landscape architecture.’ She was the first woman to cross that invisible line,” says Judith in the film.įarrand is renowned for her landscape designs at Princeton and Yale, among many other projects, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, ME, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, and the summer estate of Edward and Mary Harkness in Waterford, CT (now Harkness Memorial State Park) in Waterford, CT. Miller journeys to iconic gardens designed by Farrand and engages with designers, scholars and horticulturists in a spirited dialogue about the meaning and. Miller as she sets off to explore the remarkable life and career of Americas first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. Beatrix Cadwalader Jones was born in New York on June 19, 1872, and her forebears came of Cornish, Dutch, English, and Welsh stock. Follow award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Featured as part of the event, titled “Shaping our World: Women in Design & Innovation,” was a short tribute film (above) in which author, landscape historian, and longtime Garden Conservancy member Judith Tankard details Farrand’s inspiring accomplishments in an otherwise “man’s world.” Beatrix Farrand, the first noted woman landscape architect of her generation, was born in New York City on June 19, 1872. Beatrix Farrand’s autobiography (below) was written in 1956 and published in the Reef Point Gardens Bulletin in 1959. Support for the Humanities Institute at The New York Botanical Garden provided by The Andrew W.Last year, Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) was inducted posthumously into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame for her pioneering work and achievements in the field of landscape architecture. Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Please enter the Garden through the Mosholu Entrance, 2950 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458, and check in at Ross Hall. Immediately following the morning program, please join us for a special viewing in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library (6th floor, Library Building) of Beatrix Farrand’s original correspondence and designs for NYBG’s Rose Garden. Born into a wealthy New York family in 1872, Beatrix Jones studied with famed Harvard botanist Charles Sprague Sargent and in 189914 years before her marriage to Yale history professor Max Farrandwas the only woman among 11 founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Miller, designer of many New York City public landscapes, is our guide to Farrand’s extraordinary legacy, and joins leading garden experts, historians, and scholars who take us through the groundbreaking designer’s many iconic works.Īfter the screening, Ives and Miller will be joined by Dumbarton Oaks Director of Garden and Landscape Studies John Beardsley in a conversation moderated by Peter Crane, President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Over a 50-year career, she completed design commissions at the White House, the Morgan Library, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Maine, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at NYBG, campus designs at Princeton and Yale, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and many more.īeatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes, a new film from director Stephen Ives and horticulturist Anne Cleves Symmes, explores the innovative ideas of this distinctive American voice in landscape design. The World Premiere of a New Documentary Filmīeatrix Farrand was one of the most influential and innovative garden designers of the early 20th century and the only female charter member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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