Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them / Cynthia Zaitzevsky ; foreword by Robert B. MacKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaitzevsky, Cynthia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architects--New York (State)--Long Island--Biography.

Landscape architects.

Women landscape architects--New York (State)--Long Island--Biography.

Women landscape architects.

Landscape architecture--New York (State)--Long Island--History--20th century.

Landscape architecture.

Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959.

Farrand, Beatrix.

Hutcheson, Martha Brookes Brown, 1871-1959.

Hutcheson, Martha Brookes Brown.

Coffin, Marian Cruger, 1876-1957.

Coffin, Marian Cruger.

Shipman, Ellen.

Dean, Ruth, 1889-1932.

Dean, Ruth.

Flanders, Annette Hoyt.

Physical Description:

304 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in association with W. W. Norton, c2009.

Summary:

This book "closely examines the work of six designers: Beatrix Jones Farrand, Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson, Marian Cruger Coffin, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Ruth Bramley Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders, as well as a dozen outstanding landscape architects of the second generation (Mary Rutherfurd Jay, Rose Standish Nichols, Louise Payson, Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Isabella Pendleton, Eleanor Roche, Mary Deputy Lamson, Nellie B. Allen, Helen Elise Bullard, Helen Swift Jones, Janet Darling Webel, and Alice Recknagel Ireys) who also contributed to this distinct circle."--Dust jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Greenfield fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780393731248 (hardcover)