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Lectures<br />
Gertrude Jekyll and the<br />
Country House Garden<br />
Friday, March 22, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Speaker: Judith Tankard<br />
One of the most important garden designers<br />
of the twentieth century, Gertrude Jekyll<br />
(1843-1932) was a prolific writer and hugely<br />
influential horticulturist. Landscape historian<br />
and author, Judith B. Tankard, will explore<br />
Jekyll’s gardens and her legendary theories<br />
on color, planting and design with a wonderful<br />
selection of some of her famous garden<br />
commissions. She explores Jekyll’s most<br />
important collaborations with Sir Edwin Lutyens, which spanned over<br />
40 years and resulted in such seminal masterpieces of the Arts and<br />
Crafts movement as Hestercombe, Folly Farm and Deanery Gardens.<br />
Mrs. Tankard offers an opportunity to visit these great country house<br />
gardens and more through a selection of superb photographs from the<br />
Country Life archives. Her book of this title will be available for sale and<br />
signing during the reception that immediately follows the presentation.<br />
Fee: $25 members; $30 non-members<br />
Tony Duquette: Legendary Designer<br />
Friday, April 19, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Speaker: Hutton Wilkinson<br />
Mrs. Roth was famous for her hospitality and her collaboration with<br />
design icon Tony Duquette made her parties unforgettable. Join Hutton<br />
Wilkinson, president of Tony Duquette, Inc., for a look at the life and<br />
work of this legendary designer, whose client list outside of Hollywood<br />
included style mavens such as Lady Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, the<br />
Duchess of Windsor and Dodie Rosenkrans. He designed costumes,<br />
jewelry, interiors and furniture and was the first American artist to be<br />
given a one-man show at the Louvre. Duquette and his wife Beegle<br />
(Elizabeth) were party-givers extraordinaire at their Dawnridge Estate<br />
in Los Angeles as well. Hutton Wilkinson will share all of this with us.<br />
There will be a book sale, signing and reception immediately following<br />
the presentation.<br />
Fee: $25 members; $30 non-members<br />
Art Exhibitions<br />
Botanical Art Exhibit<br />
April 16 through June 16, <strong>2013</strong><br />
This year we celebrate our 15th Annual<br />
Botanical Art Exhibit. This beautiful exhibit<br />
has long been an essential part of the <strong>Filoli</strong><br />
Botanical Art Program’s mission to interpret<br />
and preserve this historically significant<br />
art form. <strong>Filoli</strong> has been a leader in the<br />
renewal of this art form, which combines<br />
the observational skills of the scientist<br />
and the sensibility of the artist. Part of our<br />
commitment is to sponsor an annual nationwide<br />
juried exhibition to showcase the best of<br />
botanical art.<br />
Hippeastrum, Amaryllis<br />
by Regina Gardner Miller.<br />
Artist Reception<br />
Thursday, April 18, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm<br />
<strong>Filoli</strong> will host an artist reception for this outstanding exhibition. Artists<br />
are on hand to share their botanical art knowledge and experiences.<br />
In addition, a collection of prints, matted originals and note cards will<br />
be for sale. A visit to the Garden after hours will complete this special<br />
evening. While admission is FREE, reservations are required.<br />
Reservation deadline is Friday, April 12.<br />
CALL FOR ENTRIES<br />
Botanical artists are invited to enter original artwork not previously<br />
exhibited in a <strong>Filoli</strong> botanical art exhibition in any two-dimensional<br />
medium that reflects the rich tradition of botanical art and adheres<br />
to high standards of botanical accuracy. All work will be juried using<br />
digital images. Deadline for entry is <strong>February</strong> 11, <strong>2013</strong>. Download<br />
a Prospectus and Entry Form from our web site at www.filoli.org or<br />
request one by phone to the Education Office at 650-364-8300 x233.<br />
<strong>January</strong> and <strong>February</strong> <strong>2013</strong>, <strong>Filoli</strong> Highlights<br />
6<br />
<strong>Filoli</strong> and the United Nations, Part II<br />
—continued from page 5<br />
Mrs. Roth recalled the visit this way. “So we had the luncheon, and<br />
fortunately it was the worst day you ever imagined. It rained so hard<br />
that everything was just flooded, and all the writers, media, from the<br />
east, from Philadelphia, Washington, and New York, thought this was<br />
the worst place they had ever seen, thought it was just dreadful,<br />
which was very lucky.”<br />
“And they had—it just made me sick—they had all the blown-up<br />
pictures of what it would look like when finished, tacked along the<br />
walls of the ballroom. Which was the most pathetic sight!”<br />
<strong>Filoli</strong>’s bubble had indeed burst as delegates quietly expressed<br />
dismay about the site’s isolation. The talk at the delegates’ dinner<br />
that evening at a San Francisco golf club was again of the Presidio.<br />
Dr. Zuleta Angel confirmed this at a news conference. The next day<br />
the delegates spent the morning inspecting the Presidio once more<br />
and then were off to the Stanford/Cal game. The “Big Game” at<br />
Berkeley headlines dwarfed the news of the delegation’s departure<br />
for Boston on Sunday. It was Stanford 25, Berkeley 6.<br />
The New York Times article read “Site Group Cools on San Francisco”<br />
because of the lengthy cross-country journey and the continued<br />
opposition of the Soviets and Great Britain to any site off the East<br />
Coast. Mayor Lapham was still confident that San Francisco would<br />
be the eventual home for the UNO and work began on securing the<br />
Presidio site.<br />
The site committee returned to New York from their last stop in<br />
Boston and began immediately touring sites in New York with the<br />
papers there covering it like a horse race. When the odds-on-favorite<br />
Flushing Meadow failed to show, dark horses appeared in upstate<br />
New York. A new Westchester site was on the table and Averill<br />
Harriman offered his father’s old estate, Arden, in Sterling Forest that<br />
had been used as a convalescent home during the war.<br />
But the Rockefellers had something else entirely in mind, which was<br />
announced on December 13, 1946. At the behest of his son Nelson,<br />
who had been part of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco<br />
conference, John D. Rockefeller Jr., offered a check for $8,500,000<br />
as a gift to the UNO to buy land along the East River in a warehouse<br />
and tenement district. The UNO readily accepted.<br />
For Le Corbusier, “we” obviously overcame “our” fear and the United<br />
Nations complex opened for business in 1949 in a sleek, modern<br />
high-rise where it has been home to the world’s squabbles ever<br />
since. Each October, Manhattan traffic gridlocks and helicopters<br />
whirl overhead as motorcades bearing diplomats from 193 member<br />
nations descend for the opening session.<br />
For <strong>Filoli</strong>, Mrs. Roth summed it up quite nicely. “It’s all turned out for<br />
the best.”<br />
Sources:<br />
Lapham, Roger D., An Interview on Shipping, Labor, San Francisco City<br />
Government and American Foreign Aid. Berkeley: University of California,<br />
1957.<br />
New York Times (New York, NY.) 1945-1946.<br />
Powell, Michael. “How the U.N. Came to Be in Manhattan,” Washington<br />
Post, October 26, 2003.<br />
Roth, Lurline. Matson and Roth Family History: a Love of Ships, Horses,<br />
and Gardens. Berkeley: Regents of the University of California, 1982.<br />
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA.) 1945-1946.<br />
San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader (San Mateo, CA.) 1945-1946.<br />
The author gratefully acknowledges Kristen Sammons for her help with<br />
research.
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