Beatrix Farrand

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Beatrix Jones Farrand (born June 19, 1872 in New York City , † February 28, 1959 Mount Desert Island ) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect . She has received orders for the design of gardens for large estates and country estates, parks, botanical gardens and universities. She became known for the design of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and the White House Rose Garden of the White House . With her style, she has shaped the American image of landscape architecture significantly.

Farrand was a founding member, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899 . She has designed and maintained an estimated 200 gardens over her 50-year career. One of her most important mentors was Charles Sprague Sargent . Your records are preserved in the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard University Library (Arnold Arboretum Archives).

Projects

Individual evidence

  1. Jane Brown: Lady into Landscape Gardener: Beatrix Farrand's Early Years at the Arnold Arboretum . (engl. pdf .; 603 kB)
  2. Collection of the Environmental Design Archives (Engl.)
  3. Collection in the Harvard University Library ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oasis.lib.harvard.edu
  4. Beatrix Farrand: Landscape Architect Princeton University (Eng.)
  5. Hill-Stead Garden
  6. Dumbarton Oaks (Eng.)
  7. ^ Judith Ann Schiff: Old Yale - Secret Gardens , Yale Alumni Magazine, May 2001 (Eng.)
  8. The Eyrie - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden

literature

  • Reef Point Gardens Bulletin (1946–1955) edited by Beatrix Farrand
  • David Nolan: Beatrix. The Gardening Life of Beatrix Farrand, 1872-1959 . Viking, Penguin Group, 1995
  • Thaïsa Way: Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press, 2009
  • Patrick Chasse: The Last Garden of Beatrix Farrand , Journal of the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks & Landscapes, Vol. 11, 2003

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