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  • Gallery Update: The Columbus Museum

    Gallery Update: The Columbus Museum

    As I mentioned in the last entry, Gerald and I were in Columbus, Georgia on Saturday, where our primary photographic mission was The Columbus Museum — specifically, its Olmsted Garden.

    ArchDaily is to blame here; they pointed me to the following:

    Celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., known as “the father of landscape architecture”, the Cultural Landscape Foundation has created an ever-growing digital guide of Olmsted’s most notable works.

    I immediately looked up what was near me, and lo and behold…. (Full disclosure: the garden is actually by Bradley Olmsted, one of Fredrick’s sons.)

    Of course, the building’s interesting, too, so there’s a good mix of architecture, gardens, architecture from the garden, and — you guessed it — garden architecture:

    The Columbus Museum (B&W #1)
    Urn, Columns and Bricks, The Columbus Museum
    Crawford’s Kindred (B&W detail), The Columbus Museum
    Olmsted Garden (Flower #3), The Columbus Museum
    Old Pool House (B&W), Olmsted Garden, The Columbus Museum

    I enjoyed the visit, and as a result of that visit, added 32 new photographs to the Columbus gallery. (They’re grouped together: “Columbus Museum – Mar22.”) Peruse anytime; purchase if you’d like. Thank you!