Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston
As part of ongoing Olmsted 200 celebrations, Planting Fields Foundation is highlighting the groundbreaking work of two American female landscape photographers commissioned to document Planting Fields through the new exhibition Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston. Mattie Edwards Hewitt (1869 – 1956) and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952), whom W.R. Coe engaged to document the Olmsted-designed gardens as well as the buildings and interiors of Planting Fields, were pioneering women that dominated and ultimately defined the field of landscape and architecture photography in the early twentieth century. The exhibition will feature treasures from the Planting Fields Foundation archives including examples of Hewitt’s original photography. Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston will be on view through Summer 2023.
Gate from Italian Garden (M.E. Hewitt)
Flowers on West Lawn (M.E. Hewitt)
These Olmsted 200 events are all made possible through generous grant funding provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
