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(0)Gregory Long
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Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
PALACES, CHATEAUX, COUNTRY HOUSES. Overlooking the majestic Hudson River, the Hudson Valley has long been a favoured place to live. From the homes of the early settlers of the seventeenth century to the estates of the landed gentry of the eighteenth century and the baronial mansions of the captains of industry of the nineteenth century, the valley boasts some of the finest houses in America. Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley is a sumptuous...
Author
Publisher
Library of American Landscape History
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
By the late 1980's, the New York Botanical Garden was in serious trouble. The staff were poorly paid and balkanized, endowments were depleted, fundraising was inadequate, and visitation had dwindled to an embarassing level. The grounds were seedy, many of the historic buildings decrepit, and the great conservatory in need of total rehabilitation. The fundamental concept of a botanical garden as an educational institution and museum of plants had been...
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Fran©ʹois-Andr©♭ Michaux (1770¿́¿1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world¿́¿s first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 Thomas Nuttall (1786¿́¿1859), an English botanist and one of the greatest plant explorers of North America, prepared supplementary volumes to Michaux¿́¿s landmark work, The North American Sylva. Full-color reproductions of...
Publisher
The New York Botanical Garden
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dale Chihuly is known worldwide as one of the most daring and innovative artists of his time. For decades, he has expanded the possibilities of--and subverted expectations about--the medium of glass, the role of glass artists in the art world, and the range of venues in which their art can be shown. In 2017, The New York Botanical Garden hosted the first garden exhibition of Chihuly's work in New York in over a decade. Dramatic vistas throughout NYBG's...