EXHIBITIONS
Childe Hassam
Writing the Garden:
Books from the Collections of
The New York Society Library and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
May 14, 2011 to February 15, 2012
Co-curated by Harriet Shapiro, Head of Exhibitions at the Library, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, principal founder of the Central Park Conservancy, this exhibition opens fresh vistas into the world of garden publishing. On display will be books written by writers whose creativity showed both on the page and in their own gardens. Selected from the Library’s collection and Ms. Rogers’s, the books represent the best of a special genre informed by personal experience and a passionate love of nature and horticulture. The exhibition will include books by Jane Loudon, Celia Thaxter, Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Russell Page, Katharine S. White, and other hands-on gardener-writers. Collectively, their work constitutes a lively conversation over more than two centuries.
Literary Lives:
The World of Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard
March 24, 2010 to January 31, 2011
Shelf Life
Works in Brass by Christopher Hewat
November 6, 2008 to March 31, 2009
The Library Moves Uptown
A Celebration of 70 Years at 79th Street: 1937-2007
December 15, 2007 to November 1, 2008
Bringing Home the Exotic
European as Foreigners: 1670-1840
April 9, 2007 to December 1, 2007
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