Beautiful Work: Art of Greenwich Gardens & Landscapes

The fruitful and fascinating history of gardens in Greenwich and the people who designed, tended and delighted in them will be the focus of the Historical Society’s spring exhibition. Visitors will revel in original landscape design plans, artworks, furniture, gardening and farming tools, as well as photographs and archival objects documenting the story of a variety of Greenwich landscapes, from the splendid gardens created for scions of industry who commissioned Greenwich’s Great Estates, to humble and hand-planted backyard vegetable gardens.

The Greenwich Historical Society’s museum and archival collections, a rich source for sumptuous landscape design drawings from estate gardens, books and other publications on gardening and horticulture, and artworks and artifacts inspired by the garden, forms the centerpiece of this upcoming exhibition. Beautiful Work will be accompanied by outdoor adult and family programs set amid the historical gardens and landscape of the Greenwich Historical Society’s museum site, including a series of Tavern Markets and summer Concerts on the Lawn.

Beautiful Work: The Art of Greenwich Gardens and Landscapes will be on view in the exhibition gallery at the Greenwich Historical Society’s Museum & Library. Admission to the galleries is $10 Adults; $8 Seniors and Students, Historical Society members and children under 18 are free. The galleries will be open Wednesday through Sunday between 12:00-4:00 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to reserve tickets in advance. To reserve and for more information: https://greenwichhistory.org/visit/