The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

GARDEN WEEK 2010 - Merchandise

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Jewelry - by Lillian Ostergard

Lillian Ostergard returns to Garden Week with her fabulous, one-of-a-kind creations! She opened her own business thirteen years ago after working with Christie's and Vendura. Originally from Jacksonville, this premier New York jewelry designer offers her stunning collection of original pieces, focusing on animals and nature, for purchase throughout Garden Week.

Fashion

Two of our local fashion boutiques, Sharon Batten and Model Citizen, will present styles from their Spring 2010 collections on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Update your closet with the latest looks for daytime and evening. In addition, there will be accessories and separates for purchase the day of the show. For more information, please visit Sharon Batten and Model Citizen.

"A Tale of Two Gardens"

As the philosopher Voltaire wrote in 17th century, "It is necessary to cultivate our own garden." In the book, "A Tale of Two Gardens," Sally Spangler Barnett tells the story of two gardens, one in Italy and one here in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cummer visited Italy and the Villa Gamberaia in 1930. Upon her return, Mrs. Cummer worked with noted landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman to create her Italian garden, which one can still visit today.

The proceeds from Mrs. Barnett's book will be used to "cultivate our own gardens" at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. In addition to her many years of serving on the Cummer Garden Committee, Mrs. Barnett has also served on our Board and chaired Garden Week in 1999, 2003 and the Cummer Ball & Auction in 2008. The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is most grateful to Mrs. Sally Spangler Barnett for her generosity and support.

"A Legacy in Bloom: Celebrating a Century of Gardens at The Cummer"

The recipient of the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America's 25th Annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Art Publication Award for the Outstanding Book of 2008, our garden publication, A Legacy in Bloom: Celebrating a Century of Gardens at The Cummer by garden historian Judith B. Tankard, is available in The Cummer Store. In words and pictures, this book tells the story of the gardens at The Cummer from their inception in 1903 by Ossian Cole Simonds, a prominent Midwestern landscape architect to Belgian landscape artist Francois Goffinet's far-reaching visions 100 years later. Throughout the story runs the determined Ninah Cummer, founder of the museum, without whose foresight in hiring an incomparable team of experts and her own passion for horticultural knowledge, the gardens would never have existed.

(image top) Mick Hales, View of Italian Garden, April 2004. Photograph courtesy of Mick Hales, Greenworld Pictures, inc.