Yearly Archives: 2009
Founded by American collector and heiress to the Post cereal empire, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens is one of the premier art collector’s museums in the United States. The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia and a world-renowned collection of eighteenth-century French decorative art and […]
Lord Baltimore came to our door the other day. His face wide with happiness. Such an esteemed visitor, the founder of our great state of Maryland, brought good tidings. The weather had finally turned hot and muggy enough that he had been able to set passage from the Islands up the Chesapeake Bay to plant […]
Enlargements of postcards from the Archives of American Gardens’ Historic Gardens Postcard Collection are on display behind the Enid A. Haupt Moon Gate Garden along the east side of the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2009. This exhibit was created and designed for the Garden Fest 2009 […]
Now on display in the Morris Arboretum’s Madeleine K. Butcher Sculpture Garden is a new, original abstract sculpture, by internationally-renowned artist Patrick Dougherty. The intriguing, site-specific piece is titled The Summer Palace and was created by Dougherty, with the help of staff and more than 75 volunteers, during a three-week Arboretum artist residency. The finished work […]
“Do you want to fly with me to Kensington Park, Never, Neverland?” Peter Pan might have asked Wendy as he took her hand. That is the version by Walt Disney that we remember. There were many versions of the story about the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Here you see Peter Pan where he takes […]
