Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden

Cherokee Garden Library presents

Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden

Lecture by Judith Tankard

March 28, 7pm

Atlanta History Center 130 West Paces Ferry Road Atlanta, GA 30305

Event is free to the public but reservations are required

Please call 404-841-4046 or email SCatron@AtlantaHistoryCenter.com

www.atlantahistorycenter.org/cherokeegardenlibrary

Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden is the first book in over two decades devoted to the most important garden designer of the twentieth century. Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) laid the basis for modern garden design and is credited with popularizing an informal, naturalistic look in counterpoint to the rigid, formal landscapes of the Victorian era. Her collaboration with Edwin Lutyens produced seminal garden masterpieces of the Arts and Crafts movement, including Hestercombe and Folly Farm.

Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, author and preservation consultant. She received an M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and taught at the Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, for 20 years. Her articles and book reviews have been published in many magazines, including Hortus, Apollo and Country Life. She lectures regularly both in the United States and Britain. She is the author or co-author of seven illustrated books on landscape history, including most recently Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes and Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement.