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• Title:[Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman]
  Ellen Shipman and the American garden / Judith B. Tankard.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tankard, Judith B., author.
  
• Published/Created:Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press ; Amherst, Massachusetts : Library of American Landscape History, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB470.S48 T35 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Shipman, Ellen, 1869-1950.
  Women landscape architects.
  Gardens--United States--Design.
  Gardens--United States.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
  
• Description:xii, 298 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm
  
• Summary:"Between 1914 and 1950, Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869-1950) designed more than 650 gardens, and her commissions spanned the United States, from Long Island's Gold Coast to the state of Washington. In high demand for her formal gardens and lush planting style, her elite clients included Fords, Rockefellers, Astors, and du Ponts. Shipman's imaginative approach merged elements from the Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts movements with a distinctive ability to create sensual, secluded landscapes. In Ellen Shipman and the American Garden author Judith B. Tankard describes Shipman's remarkable life and discusses fifty of her major works, including the Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio; Longue Vue Gardens in New Orleans; and Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. Richly illustrated with plans and photographs, this expanded and revised edition reveals Shipman's ability to combine plants for dramatic impact and create spaces of the utmost intimacy. Tankard also examines Shipman's unusual life, including a childhood on the American frontier; years in the artists' colony of Cornish, New Hampshire; and her long association with artist and architect Charles Platt. Shipman was also notable for establishing a thriving New York City practice and acting as an advocate for women in the profession, as she trained several other successful designers in her all-female office."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780820352084
  082035208X
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Early Years
  2. Life in the Cornish Colony
  3. Collaboration with Charles Platt
  4. Style of Her Own
  5. New York Office
  6. Artistic Maturity
  7. Border
  8. Grander Scope
  9. Wild Gardens
  10. Great Depression and the Lure of Europe
  11. Public and Institutional Projects
  12. Last Years.