Ethne Clarke’s book, An Infinity of Graces tells the story of Cecil Ross Pinsent, an English architect in the Italian landscape. Mr Pinsent, as described by Ms. Clarke, “was trained not to look at any style…but with the full knowledge of what had been done in the past….”  The time of Mr. Pinsent’s work was […]

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Tapis vert, tapis vert, tapis vert.  You are slowly walking between columns of oak and ilex with a carpet of grass under your feet. Yes, pull away those blankets of snow. There is a gateway ahead of you.  A hermitage high on the hill.  Just climb those scala santa. Edith Wharton wrote about the tapis […]

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Hidcote Ethne Clarke paints a fascinating picture of an American expatriate who designs one of the foremost gardens in Great Britain pre and post WWI in her book, “Hidcote, The Making of a Garden,” published by W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.  Major Lawrence Johnston’s garden, Hidcote is a garden treasure in England, the first garden […]

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR   Date: Undated Artists: Currier & Ives Medium: Hand-colored lithograph Measurements: 14 x 10 inches Access Number: 2004-D03-106 Gift of Lenore B. and Sidney A. Alpert supplemented with Springfield  Museum Acquistions Funds NEW CURRIER & IVES EXHIBIT OPENS AT D’AMOUR MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine […]

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Read Introduction by John Dixon Hunt of ” Italian Villas and Their Gardens,” a book written by Edith Wharton originally published in 1904 by the Century Company, in 2008 by Rizzoli and The Mount Press.  Why did Henry James describe Edith Wharton’s villa and garden visits as “excursionism?”  What is difference between garden writer and […]

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