First, I’d like to provide an updated link to the Gulbenkian conference in Lisbon, for September 27 and 28. You can access information on it here: https://skyros-congressos.pt/garden-transmissions2021/. My apologies for the broken link in the previous notice.
 
Second, I’d like to draw attention to the Society of Architectural Historians Landscape History Chapter’s Essay Prize, awarded to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal or chapter on landscape architectural history.

This year’s selection committee includes D. Fairchild Ruggles, Finola O’Kane Crimmins, and Kenneth Helphand. The deadline for submission is midnight (Eastern Time), November 1, 2021. More information on essay criteria and submission format can be found at the bottom of the newsletter.
 
Other Forthcoming Deadlines:
SAH Annual Conference Fellowships (September 30)

Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships (November 1)
 
Foundation for Landscape Studies David R. Coffin Publication Grant (December 1)
 
Foundation for Landscape Studies John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize (December 1)
 
Conferences and Other Events:
The Cultural Landscape Foundation will be hosting the conference “Courageous by Design” on October 15. Click here to find the schedule of speakers and to register. 
 
The European Architectural History Network will be holding their 7th International Meeting in Madrid, June 15–19, 2022. For more information, check out the conference website. They have also extended the deadline on the call for papers until September 20. If you have a paper you would like to present, you can submit your proposal through the conference platform.
 
Publications:
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes is seeking proposals for a new forum feature of the journal. The Forum is envisioned as an opportunity for scholars to develop collaboratively conversations in print around a specific focal point, topic, or theme in the history of gardens and designed landscapes.  The focal point might be a newly digitized manuscript or book, it might be a newly acquired set of garden plans, a newly restored or discovered landscape, or an emerging scholarly or cultural question or debate in garden and landscape history. More information available here. 
 
Member Gert Groening highlighted recent scholarship by Tanja Kilzer, “Der Garten der Villa Vizcaya—James Deerings italienische Traumwelt in Miami,” in the most recent edition of Die Gartenkunst, pp. 159–80.
 
We’ve just added a “What Are You Reading?” section of the newsletter to highlight the scholarship our members have found especially compelling. The Landscape History Chapter’s Vice-President, Will Coleman, has agreed to share what’s on his reading list for this edition of the newsletter (see below). If you’d like to contribute to this new section, please reach out. 
 
With kind wishes,
Betsy

President
Kathleen John-Alder
Rutgers University

Vice President
William Coleman
The Olana Partnership

Secretary
Royce Earnest
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Newsletter Editor
Elizabeth Athens
University of Connecticut
(2021-2023)

Advisory Board
Finola O’Kane Crimmins
University College Dublin
(2019-2022)

John Dean Davis
Ohio State University
(2019-2022)

Georges Farhat
University of Toronto
(2019-2022)

Mohammad Gharipour
Morgan State University
(2021-2024)

Margot Lystra
University of Montreal
(2021-2024)

Stephen Whiteman
The Courtauld Institute of Art
(2021-2024)

Jan Woudstra
The University of Sheffield
(2021-2024)

Have you authored a peer-reviewed journal article published during the last three years that has made an important contribution to landscape architectural history? Please consider submitting for a Landscape History Essay Prize.

Criteria:
The maximum of one prize every second year can be given to the author/s of a peer-reviewed journal article or chapter in a peer-reviewed book published in English that concerns landscape architectural history. The article should:

• Provide a significant contribution to landscape architectural history in either method or content
• Present a succinct and rigorous argument and/or historical account
• Impact the field of landscape architectural history and/or landscape architectural practice
• Use high-quality visual representations (paintings, photographs, diagrams, and/or sketches) that expand the text in tangible and meaningful ways, as appropriate to the topic/argument

Submission Format:
Articles must be submitted electronically as pdf files to the president of the landscape chapter, Kathleen John-Alder (johnalde@sebs.rutgers.edu), and the vice-president of the landscape chapter, William Coleman (william@williamcoleman.com) by midnight Eastern Time, November 1, 2021.

Eligibility:

• Any author(s) writing on the subject of landscape architectural history
• Articles can be submitted by the author or a reader, but not by the selection committee
• Only one article can be submitted per person
• Articles eligible for the 2022 prize must be published between January 1, 2019 and October 1, 2021.

I’ve been greatly valuing Katherine Manthorne’s Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. Manthorne has been piecing together for many years the scattered archives and artworks of this often overlooked contributor to the mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting boom known colloquially as the Hudson River School. In this book, she builds a web of associations, helping us to understand Greatorex’s path and the choices she made by evoking with both rigorous research and literary flair the contexts she is known to have inhabited, even when documentation of the artist herself is scanty. (Her role in the fascinating built environment of the art colony of Cragsmoor, NY, will be of particular interest to Chapter members.) It’s a compelling model of how to do history on figures whose stories have been less well preserved as we all try to widen the lens.

–Will Coleman