Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York, 1981Gelatin silver print
8 × 10 in.
photographer’s credit stamp on print recto and notes in pencil in photographer’s hand
Innisfree Garden, in Millbrook, New York, began as painter Walter Beck’s private estate in the 1920s, inspired by Chinese garden design. After Beck’s death, landscape architect Lester Collins distilled his vision into a sequence of “cup gardens”—self-contained landscapes revealed in turn. Inquire