Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them

Cynthia Zaitzevsky

Overview

Astonishingly, half of all the private gardens laid out on Long Island during the Country Place era (ca. 1890-1940), and even a few significant public landscapes, were designed by women who, for the first time, hung out their shingles in a business heretofore reserved to men. This well-illustrated book covers in depth the work of six designers-Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders-and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women, comparing their lives and careers and discerning interesting patterns, above all their determination and their shared passion for excellence. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and professionals.

About the Author

Cynthia Zaitzevsky, teaches at Harvard University and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

ISBN 13: 978-0-393-73124-8
March 2009 / 187 duotones, 19 color illustrations/ 304 pages/ Hardcover