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ARCHITECTURE AND GARDENS
WOMEN IN THE VISUAL ARTS: REVIEW IMAGES
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Undergraduate 2
12/04/2013

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Sophia Hayden, Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

 

·      Worlds Colombian Exposition 1893

 

·      All of this happened at once

 

·      It was opened for 6 months

 

·      The women’s building

 

 

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Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman, 1893


In the Women’s building at the 

Worlds Colombian Exposition 1893

 

 

 

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Julia Morgan, Bell Tower, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1903-04

 

·      Has to work in an office, two years as an student to another office

 

·      Has her own office right when she can

 

·      Suzan Mills gave her, her first commission

 

·      For Mills College

 

 

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Julia Morgan, Berkeley City Women’s Club, 1929-30

 

·      Phoebe Apperson Hirst, involved in a lot of things, befitting women

 

·       Was another patronage to Morgan

 

 

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Julia Morgan, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA, 1919

 

·      William Randolph Hearst gives her great opportunity’s

 

·      An everything type of style

 

·      28 years worked on the Hearst castle

 

·       Ridiculously huge

 

·      11 million dollars to build

 

 

·      Pools are awesome there are two

 

·      Wintoon Estate for the Hirsts to get away to…like wtf hahah they don’t need anymore houses

 

·      Working for richest patronages ever

 

 

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Mary Jane Colter, Desert Watch Tower, Grand Canyon, AZ, 1931

 

·      Fake ruin, it has a steel frame

 

·      Worked with a lot of native American artists

·      She designs a lot of parkitecture

 

·      She had an interest in Indian artifacts

 

·      Was from St. Paul

 

·      Her work is about selling the west

 

·      She’s influenced by all the adobe houses and stuff like that

 

·      The painted desert

 

 

 

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Marion Mahony Griffin, All Souls Unitarian Church, Evanston, IL, 1902

 

·      Born in Chicago

 

·      First woman to get an Architecture degree

 

·      She felt proud that she was getting a draftsmen position after graduating aft MIT

 

·      1895 worked for Frank Lloyd Wright

 

·      Married Walter Griffin  

 

·      He also worked for Wright

 

·      Did a cover for Building and Real Estate

 

·      Power of women’s influence

 

·      She did the drawing that people think of Wright for

 

·      She was really good

 

·      Very few of her buildings survive

 

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Gertrude Jekyll, Munstead Wood, Surry, 1896
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Beatrix Farrand, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1921-47

·      Edith Wartons niece

 

·      She was a landscape architect

 

·      Influenced by the English style

 

·      Lych Gate

 

·      Her patrons included Whitonys, Rockefellers and many more in the upper class

 

·      She water colored

 

·      Designed gardens for white house

 

·      1913 married at age 41

 

·      Traveled around with husband got to design even more gardens

 

·      Landscapes for large universities

 

 

·      Her major commission that survives is in Dumbarton oaks

 

 

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