United States of America -- New York -- Nassau County -- Oyster Bay -- Oyster Bay Cove
Scope and Contents:
The folders include a work sheet, copies of articles, copies of photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt, and features plan.
General:
This five-acre property is surrounded by twenty acres of preserved land containing wetlands, a stream, and pond. Elmwood includes a formal Ilex garden dating from the 1920s. The lower courtyard is framed by brick walls. One length of this garden is planted with heirloom lilacs, underplanted with perennial geraniums. A shade garden at the far end is planted with ferns, hellebores, astilbe, oak leaf hydrangea and is overhung by a large, flowering cherry tree. Framed by a pair of hornbeam trees, two antique marble statues of fanciful rams overlook a hill which blooms with Camassia and bluebells in the spring. Wisteria vines hang from the trees below. The pool garden is green and simple with lawn, a Japanese holly hedge and a natural stone wall dividing it from the cutting garden. The wall is planted on top with Nepeta and Rosa "Carefree Wonder." The cutting garden is planted with annuals such as zinnias, ageratum, cleome, and cosmos. A large, stately black walnut tree shades the corner of this garden.
Persons and organizations associated with the garden include: Thomas F. Youngs (former owner, 1836); Louis Comfort Tiffany (former owner, ? - 1910); Charles L. Tiffany (former owner, 1910-1947); Bushrod B. and Margaret C. Howard (former owners, 1947-1952); Lowrie Flagg (former owner, 1952-1993); Martha Brookes Hutcheson (landscape architect, 1911-1912); Mattie Edwards Hewitt (photographer, 1927); Schulz, Innocenti & Webel (landscape architects, 2000-present); and Tony Lepsis (garden designer, 1997-present).
Related Materials:
Elmwood related holdings consist of 1 folder (12 35 mm. slides)
Martha Brookes Hutcheson's archives are located at Frelinghuysen Arboretum at Morris County Park Commission Library, Morristown, New Jersey.
Mattie Edwards Hewitt's archives are located in Nassau County Museum, Long Island Institute, Hempstead, New York.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Research material for exhibitions curated by Reynolds at the Grey Art Gallery, for articles, essays, and his graduate studies; and miscellaneous correspondence and subject files.
Files on exhibitions curated by Reynolds at the Grey Art Gallery, including Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Paintings (1979), John James Audubon and His Sons (1982), Samuel F.B. Morse and the Grand Style (1983), Giovannie Boldini and Society Portraiture (1984), and Walter Gay, 1856-1937 (1984), containing correspondence with owners of works of art, galleries, auction houses and museums; issues of the Grey Art Gallery Bulletin containing writings by Reynolds; files relating to published and unpublished writings, including Reynolds' master's thesis on A.D.O. Browere and other writings done as a graduate student at Brooklyn College, articles, essays, and other writings on Theodore Wores, Irving Wiles, Leopold Seyffert, John Singer Sargent, the architecture of the Brooklyn Museum, and other subjects.
Also included are writings by others; miscellaneous correspondence; printed material; photographs of works of art; and files regarding Reynolds' participation in New York State funded art projects, including New York: The State of Art (1977), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts For Transit (1981-1985), and the New York State Council on the Arts' Museum Aid panel (1983-1986). Some of the Grey Art Gallery exhibition files contain related correspondence added by Reynolds after the exhibition.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian; New York, N.Y. and Newark, N.J. Born 1949. Died 1990. Curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark Museum, N.J., 1983-1990; the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1977-1983, and curatorial assistant at the Brooklyn Museum, 1972-1977. Specialized in 19th and 20th century American painting. Wrote numerous articles on art.
Provenance:
Donated 1991 by the Gary Reynolds estate, via Paul Himmelstein, executor.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1848-1933 : [exhibition] Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen's Council, New York : January 24 through April 6, 1958 / text, chronology and bibliography by Robert Koch ; foreword by Thomas S. Tibbs ; notes on the plates by Robert A. Laurer ; editor of the catalog, Patricia Sufrin
