This essay series in the Oaks News draws on scholarship from a range of disciplines, revisiting materials from the last century, as well as notes from the curators on the process of curating the Centennial.
Nurturing the Gardens: The Dumbarton Oaks Greenhouse
Cultivating and caring for plants year-round
Choreographing Moments of Repose in the Gardens
Preserving historic furniture designs, from sketches to 3D computer models
The Mirror Wisdom of Dumbarton Oaks
Reflections on the role of women in landscape architecture and the garden
Exhibiting the Gardens
Preparing for in-person centennial celebrations
Sustaining the Gardens
Celebrating those who steward our gardens
Land and Labor: Dumbarton Oaks prior to 1920
A landscape history
Gardens as Anniversary
Celebrating the past, acknowledging the present, and looking to the future
The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens as Archive
Beginning a year of celebration