Innisfree Garden, his 185-acre masterpiece in Millbrook, N.Y., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places last year. The Hirshhorn garden — which covers 1.5 acres on the National Mall, across Jefferson Drive from the museum’s famous drum-shaped building by Mr. Bunshaft — did not always have such ardent supporters. The New York Times called it a “gravel pit” in 1974, the year the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as it is officially called, opened. “He was a choreographer of space,” said Kate Kerin, the landscape curator at Innisfree and an expert on Mr. Collins’s work. She described the Hirshhorn garden as a “procession.”“His garden is a green oasis with things to discover as you move through it,” she said.

Source: New York Times July 16, 2020 22:41 UTC