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 | Gardens for a Beautiful America | 1 1/2 Hours | Gardens for a Beautiful America: The Photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston
Sam Watters, Historian
Monday, October 29 at 10:00AM
Location: Weld Hill Research Building
Please note that we have canceled both the morning and the evening sessions of this program.
At the opening of the 20th century, photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was front and center in the national movement to beautify America. Gilded Age industrialism had brought a new prosperity to life in the 48 states, but at the price of once-green city streets and country back yards. In response, civic organizations and women’s clubs initiated the Garden Beautiful movement. To promote professional landscape design and horticultural diversity, they turned to Johnston, a pioneering “house and garden” photojournalist and lecturer who travelled coast to coast photographing estate parterres and row house lots as models of new design. With colored slides from Johnston’s own collection, preserved at the Library of Congress since the 1940s, historian Sam Watters will speak about the photographer’s role as documentarian, fine artist and garden club prophet of beauty.
Fee through October 15: $20
Fee after October 15: $25
Co-sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, Garden Club of the Back Bay, the Garden Conservancy, and the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University | |
