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