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The scenic landscapes of the Hudson River Valley have inspired visitors since colonial times. In the 19th century, the region became the focus of an artistic movement that encompassed paintings, sculpture, architecture, and, not least, landscape design. The Gilded Age gardens featured in this large-scale Monacelli Press hardcover represent some of the most stunning living fruitions of that aesthetic movement. In Gardens of the Hudson Valley, photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley display the lush fecundity and rich patterns of twenty-five gardens between Yonkers and Hudson, New York. Eye-filling wonders.
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The majesty of the Hudson River has captivated both artists and visitors for generations, and the gardens along its banks have a special character. Those created for the Gilded Age estates are more formal; private gardens respond directly to the rolling landscape and mature forests. The area is a crucible for the development of American landscape design since the major figures—Alexander Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, ...