A genius for place : American landscapes of the country place era / Robin Karson ; with photographs by Carol Betsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karson, Robin S.

Contributor:

Betsch, Carol.

Library of American Landscape History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architects--United States--Biography.

Landscape architects.

Horticulturists--United States--Biography.

Horticulturists.

Landscape architects--United States--History.

Horticulturists--United States--History.

Landscape design--History.

Landscape design.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 428 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : In association with Library of American Landscape History, c2007.

Contents:

Pt. I. An American style, 1900-1919. Warren H. Manning, 1860-1938 ; Charles A. Platt, 1861-1933 ; Gwinn, Cleveland, Ohio ; Stan Hywet Hall, Akron, Ohio ; Ellen Shipman, 1869-1950

Pt. II. Innovation and wildness, 1920-1929. Beatrix Farrand, 1872-1959 ; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. ; Marian Cruger Coffin, 1876-1957 ; Winterthur, Winterthur, Delaware ; Jens Jensen, 1860-1951 ; Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan

Pt. III. Dreams and abstractions, 1929-1939. Lockwood de Forest, Jr., 1896-1949 ; Val Verde (Dias Felicitas), Santa Barbara, California ; Fletcher Steele, 1885-1971 ; Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-402) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Jones fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781558496361 (cloth : alk. paper)

155849636X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

123029765