Dumbarton Oaks Garden Designer

16 x 20 cm.

Dumbarton oaks garden designer. Digital facsimile 100 leaves of plates. In 1920 after a long and careful search mildred and robert woods bliss found their ideal country house and garden within washington dc. Woodrow wilson and princeton university figured among her prominent clients.

Dumbarton oaks research library and collection 1703 32nd street nw. Dumbarton oaks in washington d c the. Within a year the blisses hired landscape gardener beatrix farrand to design the garden.

They purchased a fifty three acre property described as an old fashioned house standing in rather neglected grounds at the highest point of georgetown. The garden and landscape studies program was established in 1972 to support advanced scholarship in garden history and landscape architecture encompassing the study of culturally and artistically significant landscapes around the world from ancient times to the present. 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.

Title from bookseller lucien goldschmidt data sheet. When mildred and robert woods bliss commissioned beatrix jones farrand 1872 1959 to design a garden for their new fifty four acre georgetown property farrand was one of the country s most acclaimed landscape architects mrs. Ninety nine 99 original garden designs 45 in sepia ink 54 outlined in sepia ink and hand colored.