Olmsted and the Hudson River School: Art in Landscape
Sun, May 18
|The Woodland Parlor
Learn about Frederick Law Olmsted and his association with the Hudson River School. The lecture is at The Woodland Parlor in Maplewood, with a reception and exhibit to follow at Durand-Hedden.
Time & Location
May 18, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Woodland Parlor, 60 Woodland Road, Maplewood, NJ
Guests
About the event
If you’ve ever wandered through Maplewood Memorial Park and felt as though you were walking through a living painting, that is not by chance. Many landscape architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including those who designed Memorial Park, were inspired by Hudson River School artists. Chief among those architects was Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York’s Central Park.
Explore the fascinating connection between landscape design and art with Sara Cedar Miller, former Central Park historian, at Central Park and the Hudson River School, a talk sponsored by Durand-Hedden House & Garden at The Woodland Parlor on Sunday, May 18, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Visitors are then invited to Durand-Hedden House to view a new exhibit: Olmsted and the Hudson River School: Art in Landscape. Visitors will also enjoy works by local artists in the Carriage House, the products of a recent Painters in…