Landscape Lectures
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes
Thursday, May 14, 2020
7 - 9 pm
Calderwood Hall
General admission for children 17 years and under is always free
Thursday, May 14, 2020
7 - 9 pm
Calderwood Hall
Join us for a screening of Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscape followed by a discussion with historian John Beardsley and Judith B. Tankard, moderated by Charles Waldheim.
Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) was an American landscape gardener and founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Farrand (née Jones) grew up in New York City old-money society, summering in Bar Harbor, Maine where she began gardening. After a fortunate meeting with Mrs. Charles Sprague Sargent, she was invited to visit Holm Lea, the Sargents’ Brookline estate. Charles Sprague Sargent invited her to study to be a landscape gardener at the Arnold Arboretum under his direction. She began her professional life there. During a fifty-year career she created gardens for private estates, worked with Ralph Adams Cram on the Princeton University campus, and designed public gardens. Her work can be seen at the New York Botanical Garden; Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.; Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut; and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden. Seal Harbor, Maine.
Friends of Fenway Court Patrons are invited to receive complimentary tickets to the lecture.
Tickets are required and include Museum admission.
Adults $15, seniors $12, students $10, free for members and children 17 and under.
*Handling charges apply to these orders