The LongHouse Landscape Legends series will present “Modernist Landscapes — Visionaries and Their Gardens” on Saturday, August 16, a morning and afternoon featuring three talks.
Following a reception at 9:30 a.m., Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University will kick off the program at 10 a.m. with “Abstraction and Nature: Gardens in the Work of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.”
After a break for garden walks and “nibbles,” the program will resume with William Whitaker, the curator and collections manager of the architectural archives of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, speaking on landscape architect Harriet Pattison at 11:30 a.m. Then at 12:15 p.m., Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, will present “A Modern Mystic: Art and Nature in the Gardens of Russell Page,” followed by a conversation with landscape designer Deborah Nevins.
The event will conclude with lunch in the LongHouse Reserve gardens.
LongHouse Reserve, a 16-acre sculpture garden, is located on Hands Creek Road in East Hampton.Tickets are $250, available at longhouse.org.
Staff Writer on Aug 5, 2025