Beatrix Farrand | |
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| Born | Beatrix Cadwalader Jones June 19, 1872 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 28, 1959 (aged 86) Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Arnold Arboretum, Columbia School of Mines |
| Occupation | Architect |
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| Parent(s) | Mary Cadwalader Rawle Frederic Rhinelander Jones |
| Projects | Dumbarton Oaks, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden |
| External videos | |
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 Beatrix Farrand Tribute Film, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame | |
| Big Ideas for Small Spaces – The Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield, Gardening the Hudson Valley |
Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect. 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. Only a few of her major works survive: Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.,[1] the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount Desert, Maine, the restored Farm House Garden in Bar Harbor,[2] the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden (constructed after Farrand's death, using her original plans, and opened in 1988),[3] and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental.[4]
Farrand was one of the founding eleven members, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects.[5]: 31–35 Beatrix Farrand is one of the most accomplished persons, and women, recognized in both the first decades of the landscape architecture profession and the centuries of landscape garden design arts and accomplishments.[6]
- ^ "Beatrix Farrand". Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ Lamb, Jane (2004). The grand masters of Maine gardening: and some of their disciples. Camden, ME: Down East Books. p. 30. ISBN 978-0892726370. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^ Information, Plant. "Research Guides: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at NYBG: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden". libguides.nybg.org. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ Parke, Margaret. "A portrait of Beatrix Farrand", American Horticulturist, April 1985, pp. 10–13.
- ^ McGuire, Diane Kostial; Fern, Lois (1982). Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872–1959) : fifty years of American landscape architecture : [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University. ISBN 0884021068. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^ Tankard, Judith B. (2009). Beatrix Farrand : private gardens, public landscapes (1st ed.). New York: Monacelli Press. ISBN 978-1-58093-227-1. From Introduction: "Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959) was one of America's most celebrated landscape architects. She was renowned for the private estate gardens she designed for the cream of East Coast society as well as for her work as a landscape consultant at some of the country's most prestigious private universities and colleges... Variously praised as 'the Gertrude Jekyll of America' and 'the doyenne of her profession,' Farrand owed her success to her unerring eye for design, profound knowledge of horticulture, phenomenal energy, and deep commitment to her profession that inspired others to follow in her footsteps."