Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC
May 21-August 29, 2010


Artificial cascade, Park Muskau. Lithograph from Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei (Hints on Landscape Gardening) by Prince Pückler-Muskau.
This two-gallery exhibition, planned by the Morgan Library and Museum in partnership with the Foundation for Landscape Studies over the course of three years, traces the course of the Romanticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Comprised of manuscripts, drawings, watercolors, and rare books, it focuses on humanity’s new attitude toward nature as variously expressed in England, France, Germany, and America. 

The catalog for the exhibition, which was prepared by co-curators Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, John Bidwell, and Elizabeth Eustis, contains a book-length essay by Rogers along with illustrations and descriptions of the approximately one hundred objects on display. 

Great Romantic Landscapes: Central Park and Frederic Church’s Olana
Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 6:30 p.m.*
The Morgan Library & Museum


Pool and rustic bridge, Central Park. Photograph by Sara Cedar Miller.
A panel of expert historians and historic-landscape stewards will explore the relationship between two of America’s greatest nineteenth-century Romantic landscapes: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s Central Park, and Frederic Church’s villa and landscape garden, Olana. Speakers include Sara Cedar Miller, Central Park Conservancy historian and photographer and author of Central Park: An American Masterpiece; Katherine H. Kerin, Olana landscape curator; and Evelyn D. Trebilcock, Olana curator. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, will moderate. This program is cosponsored by The Olana Partnership, the Central Park Conservancy, and the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Tickets: $15 for nonmembers; $10 for Morgan, Olana Partnership, and Central Park Conservancy members.

To order tickets visit www.themorgan.org or call 212.685.0008, ext. 560.

*The exhibition Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design will be open at 5:30 p.m. especially for program attendees.

How Romantic is Now? Spotlight on Contemporary Landscape Design
Wednesday, June 2, 6:30 p.m.*
The Morgan Library & Museum

Leading landscape architects and practitioners discuss the influence of the nineteenth-century landscapes of Frederick Law Olmsted and others on their work. Participants include Douglas Reed, partner, Reed Hilderbrand; Michael Van Valkenburgh, principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh & Associates; Thomas Woltz, partner, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects; and Patrick Cullina, vice president of horticulture and park operations, the High Line; in conversation with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president, Foundation for Landscape Studies. This program is cosponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Tickets: $15 for nonmembers; $10 for members.

To order tickets visit www.themorgan.org or call 212.685.0008, ext. 560.

*The exhibition Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design will be open at 5:30 p.m. especially for program attendees.

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