Exhibitions
- May 14, 2011-February 15, 2012
Writing the Garden: Books from the Collections of The New York Society Library and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers - May 21-August 29, 2010
Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design Rare books from the collections of the Morgan Library and Museum and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Lectures and Symposia
- June 2, 2010
How Romantic is Now? Spotlight on Contemporary Landscape Design - May 26, 2010
Great Romantic Landscapes: Central Park and Frederic Church's Olana - January 15, 2008
How Green is My City? New York Today and in 2030 - January-April 2007
Nature and Place: A Series of Conversations with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers - January-April 2006
The American Landscape: Ideals, Influences, Innovations
How Romantic is Now? Spotlight on Contemporary Landscape Design
Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 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.