Gilded Age Art and Architecture: Landscape Designs
Woodlawn Cemetery, Jerome Avenue Entrance
Sunday, April 7, 2024 1:00 PM
Gilded Age Architecture & Art
Spend an hour with Woodlawn Architectural Historian Anthony Pellino exploring the bold personalities, cultural forces and wonderful artistry of some of Woodlawn’s funerary masterpieces as we walk through the cemetery. Each talk will focus on a different aspect of artistry and design explained in terms of how patrons, designers and artists make the decisions that go into a finished work.
Landscape
During the Gilded Age landscape design emerged as a separate discipline, often practiced by women. Although the most ephemeral branch of spatial design, Woodlawn has a particularly rich history of designed landscapes which memorialized the dead. This walk will take visitors through some of the circumstances which drew women to become landscape designers and the themes they used in the work they executed for their cemetery patrons.
