Library of American Landscape History BOOKS AND FILMS • FALL/WINTER 2018 lalh.org CONTENTS Introduction 6 NEW Ellen Shipman and the American Garden Judith B. Tankard 7 The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System [paperback] Francis R. Kowsky 8 FORTHCOMING Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein 9 The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore Ethan Carr 10 Robert Royston Reuben Rainey and JC Miller 11 A. E. Bye Thaisa Way 12 BACKLIST Lawrence Halprin Kenneth I. Helphand 13 Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner Edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback 14 James Rose Dean Cardasis 15 Ruth Shellhorn Kelly Comras 16 Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South William E. O’Brien 17 Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852 David Schuyler 18 John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner R. Bruce Stephenson 19 Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape Elizabeth Hope Cushing 20 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed 21 A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era Robin Karson 22 A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Susan L. Klaus 23 2 Graceland Cemetery: A Design History Christopher Vernon 24 The Native Landscape Reader Edited by Robert E. Grese 25 Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma Ethan Carr 26 Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker’s Life, 1885–1971 Robin Karson 27 Design in the Little Garden Fletcher Steele 28 Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery Blanche M. G. Linden 29 Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park Carol Grove 30 A World of Her Own Making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the Landscape of Reynolda Catherine Howett 31 Midwestern Landscape Architecture Edited by William H. Tishler 32 Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England Frederick Law Olmsted 33 The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt, and Ellen Biddle Shipman Robin Karson 34 ASLA CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES Landscape for Living Garret Eckbo 35 New Towns for Old John Nolen 36 Landscape-Gardening O. C. Simonds 37 Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening Robert Morris Copeland 38 The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening Wilhelm Miller 39 The Art of Landscape Architecture Samuel Parsons Jr. 40 Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West; with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains H. W. S. Cleveland 41 The Spirit of the Garden Martha Brookes Hutcheson 42 3 Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect Charles W. Eliot 43 Book of Landscape Gardening Frank A. Waugh 44 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 45 DESIGNING THE AMERICAN PARK SERIES 48 Edited by Ethan Carr CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN SERIES 49 Edited by Daniel J. Nadenicek MASTERS OF MODERN LANDSCAPE DESIGN 50 Edited by Robin Karson and Sarah Allaback AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES 51 NORTH AMERICA BY DESIGN FILM SERIES 52 Fletcher Steele and Naumkeag: A Playground of the Imagination 53 Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison 54 The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System 55 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts 56 Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California 57 4 Library of American Landscape History is the leading publisher of books that advance the study and practice of American landscape architecture—from gardens and parks to city plans. LALH books educate the public, motivating stewardship of significant places and the environment, and they inspire new designs that connect people with nature. LALH is a publicly supported charitable organization with 501(c)(3) status. 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The books fea- explore significant figures in American land- tured in LALH’s catalog reflect its mission—to scape design, providing missing chapters in our advance the study and practice of American history and establishing a new understanding landscape architecture, motivate stewardship of the historical context and basis of landscape of significant places and the environment, and design practice today. Also in partnership with inspire new designs that connect people with the University of Georgia Press, LALH is build- nature. 6 NEW Ellen Shipman and the American Garden ELLEN SHIPMAN Judith B. Tankard AND THE AMERICAN GARDEN A revised edition of the LALH classic University of Georgia Press in association with LALH Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-5208-4 To order: University of Georgia Press JUDITH B. TANKARD The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman, published in In response to the popularity of Tankard’s 1996, introduced a generation of garden lovers book and its increasing scarcity, LALH pub- to Ellen Shipman (1869–1950), a Philadelphian lished an updated edition that covers several who discovered her remarkable talent for land- gardens designed by Shipman that were discov- scape design in the artists’ colony in Cornish, ered as a result of the original edition—among New Hampshire. Beginning her career as a them, the Italian Garden at the Cummer Mu- hands-on gardener, Shipman received drafting seum of Art & Gardens (Jacksonville, Fla.) and instruction from Charles A. Platt. In time, she Tranquillity Farm (Middlebury, Conn.). The was collaborating with Platt, Warren H. Man- revised edition also features a new full-color ning, and other landscape architects, who in- introduction and an expansive new design. corporated her sumptuous flower borders into their estate layouts. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: The scope of Shipman’s practice and gar- denmaking grew as she set up her professional “It is a handsome book, valuable not only to his- office in New Hampshire. In the early 1920s she torians and garden designers, but also to every moved to New York City, where she attracted garden maker. The details and explanations clients throughout the United States, eventu- offered by Tankard reveal much of the garden ally recording more than 650 commissions. Ju- designer’s art.” dith B. Tankard’s award-winning book was the —George Waters, Pacific Horticulture first to present Shipman’s achievements and in doing so illuminated a neglected topic: women “Fascinating, historic, poignant.” and American landscape architecture. —Maxine Kumin, The New York Times 7 NEW The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and THE BEST PLANNED CITY IN THE WORLD the Buffalo Park System KOWSKY Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System System Park and the Buffalo Olmsted, Vaux, PLANNEDTHE IN CITY THE BEST WORLD Francis R.