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Geographic / Rhode Island; HAV-01-403-Z-G-303
GUSN-354202
This color sketch of an unidentified garden was done for heiress and sportswoman Edith Hope Goddard Iselin, also known as Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin. The sketch is likely an unbuilt proposal for the Iselin gardens in Providence, Rhode Island. The sketch is undated and was completed by American landscape architect Loring Underwood.
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sketches
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Garden Sketch for Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin - (handwritten)
Loring Underwood Landscape Architect (handwritten)
1 color sketch; 14 1/2 X 19 1/2 inches
GC001
Original art collection
2014
GC001.US.057
Gift
Gift of Dan Santos, 2014
Providence county (Rhode Island) [county]
Underwood, Loring, -1930 (Landscape architect)
sketches
watercolor (paint)
charcoal (plant material)
Iselin, Edith Hope Goddard, 1868-1970
Iselin, C. Oliver (Charles Oliver), approximately 1854-1932
André, Édouard François, 1840-1911
Garden
Art
Great condition. Minor tears and staining to the edges of the sketch.
Item
Geographic / Rhode Island; HAV-01-403-Z-G-303
Edith Hope Goddard Iselin was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1868. She was the scion of a family who had made a fortune in the merchantile and manufacturing industries. She married banker and sportsman Charles Oliver Iselin in 1894.
She was active in the yachting and horse racing worlds. She and her husband were avid philanthropists and yacht racers. They were also known for their extravagent homes and gardens. Iselin died 1970 at the age of 102.
Loring Underwood was a landscape architect and photographer who worked primarily in New England. He was born in Belmont, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard College and the Bussey Institution at Harvard before traveling to Europe. where he attended Ecole d'Horticulture. Here, he studied under celebrated French landscape architect Édouard André. When he returned to America in 1900, he settled in Belmont and opened his practice in Boston, where he worked until his death in 1930.
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