Exhibit Currently on Display
Plants, Books and Drawings: The Work of Beatrix Farrand
Beatrix Jones Farrand practiced landscape design from the 1890s through the 1940s. In 1899, she was a founding member, along with Frederick Law Olmsted, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. During her fifty-year career, Farrand designed more than 200 gardens for educational institutions, universities, communities, museums and wealthy private clients. She is recognized for her work at Dumbarton oaks, Dartington Hall, Yale and Princeton Universities, various projects for the Rockefellers, and particularly for her Reef Point, Maine, estate. >/p>
In 1935 Farrand and her husband historian Max Farrand, developed the Reef Point Estate as a horticultural and landscape history study center. In addition to a test garden of native flora and an herbarium, Reef Point also contained a large library and collection of educational materials that included books, prints, photographs, and the archival collections of Gertrude Jekyll and other practitioners. At the end of her life, Farrand donated nearly 2500 books about architecture and landscape architecture to the University's Environmental Design Library.
This exhibit re-examines Reef Point through a selection of the prints and books held there, the Reef Point Gardens Bulletin, plans from its garden and archival collections. Also on display will be plans, drawings, and other material from the Environmental Design Archives, Visual Resources Collection, and the University & Jepson Herbaria that showcase some of her well-known projects. Exhibit team: Emma Keefe, Miranda Hambro, Waverly Lowell, Jaye Fishel and David Eifler.
March 12-June 8, 2012
Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley
