Celebrating the Works of Beatrix Farrand
with Judith B. Tankard
June 26, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
On the 150th anniversary of Farrand's birth, Judith B. Tankard's Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect takes readers on a tour of Farrand's finest works, celebrating her influence on succeeding generations of women landscape architects. Join us for a lecture and book signing in the Stable auditorium.
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The Mount is a Massachusetts Cultural Council UP designated organization welcoming participants of all disabilities. Please contact The Mount at 413-551-5100 or by email, info@edithwharton.org, to discuss accommodations needed to participate fully in this event.
- $20 Mount Member, $25 General Admission
- Preregistration is recommended, and tickets are available at the door.
- The lecture is in the Stable auditorium.
Buy Judith's book through The Mount's bookshop.org page!
Biography
Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, preservation consultant, and the author or co-author of ten books on historic gardens and garden designers, most recently Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Other books include Ellen Shipman and the American Garden (winner of the J. B. Jackson Book Prize) and three works on Gertrude Jekyll. Tankard taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University for more than twenty years, and served as a board member of the Beatrix Farrand Society. She is a frequent lecturer on landscape history and a contributor to the British journal Hortus.