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00502_Central Park - Bethesda Fountain

Job Number
00502
Image Type
postcard
Description
Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted’s first and most famous park project, marks the beginning of a 15-year collaboration with architect Calvert Vaux. Olmsted and Vaux’s “Greensward” Plan for Central Park stated, “The whole breadth of the Park will be brought into this landscape, the foreground of which will be enriched with architectural decorations and a fountain, the middle-distance, composed of rocks with evergreens and dark shrubs interspersed among them, reflected in the pond; and the distance extended into intricate obscurity....” - C.E. Beveridge {Vegetation - Circuation - Water Feature - Structure}
Source
J&A Collection
Start date
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