A Pioneer of American Landscape Architecture 32 Years Designing BBG, 35 Defending CP, NYC, 40 Providing Vision to AP&CA Find More Life, Work Inside

About the Author Oliver Chamberlain has published articles on Harold Caparn and Caparn's early employer J. Wilkinson Elliott and has provided text and photographs on Elliott and Caparn for The Cultural Landscape Foundation's "Pioneers," online. He has provided the entry on Caparn for the book Shaping the American Landscape, published in 2009. Chamberlain published his book Landscapes and Writings of Harold Caparn, 1890-1945, in 2013. Chamberlain has held faculty and administrative positions at Bowling Green State University, OH, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the fifth generation of the Caparn/Chamberlain family with interests in the art of landscape design and visual and performing arts. Some sources for the book come from his personal family collection, others from his extensive research. He lives with his family on a plot he has designed near Providence, R.I.

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