Art / garden design - Roberto Burle Marx. Design for a garden, (1948).
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Left: Oscar Neimeyer. Beach House for Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, project, Santa Barbara / (Montecito), California, (1948); Right: Roberto Burle Marx. Design for a garden, (1948). Both in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Roberto Burle Marx. Design for a garden, (1948).
Gouache on board
50 1/4 x 27 3/4 in. (127.6 x 70.5 cm)
In 1948, Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine commissioned Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx for a house and landscape design for the Tremaine’s beachfront property in the Santa Barbara area of California. The design was recognized for merging rectilinear and organic orientations in art and design at that time, and the Tremaine House designs continue to be exhibited and discussed today.
While Tremaine House ended up unbuilt, the Design for a garden by Burle Marx became part of the Tremaine’s travelling exhibition, Painting toward architecture (1947-52), for the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art. The Tremaines owned the collection as well as the company. The design travelled on and off in the show from presumably October 1948 to 1952.
In 1949, the Museum of Modern Art in New York ran a special, small exhibition From Le Corbusier to Niemeyer: Savoye House - Tremaine House 1949. The exhibition included Niemeyer’s maquette and drawings, and presumably Burle Marx’s Design for a garden and a collage by Niemeyer and Burle Marx. According to the press release, the theme of the show was "based on Henry-Russell Hitchcock’s book on the Miller [Company] Collection of abstract art, Painting toward architecture." This book also accompanied the travelling Miller Company exhibition and two illustrations showing the design by Niemeyer and Burle Marx were in the book (p. 53).
The maquette, Design for a garden, and collages by Burle Marx and Niemeyer were later donated to the Museum of Modern Art. Over the years since, all of the works have been discussed and shown in different kinds of exhibitions.
To learn more, click the links to articles and exhibition compilations with documentation below.
Tremaine Collection artworks and designs in publications (compilation; 1945-present)
ADC staff - 14 Jan 20
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The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters exhibition catalogue (list of photos of artworks and designs) (1984)
ADC staff - 26 Aug 19
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Oscar Niemeyer / Roberto Burle Marx. Tremaine House & Painting toward architecture (2017)
R. J. Preece - 27 Dec 17
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Painting toward architecture (1947-52) in 2017: Three works, three histories, three Modern mysteries
R. J. Preece - 27 Dec 17
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Rethinking Painting toward architecture (1947-52) (2017)
R. J. Preece - 01 Jul 17
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The Painting toward architecture exhibition (1947-52) by the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art: The artworks and designs (2016)
ADC staff - 28 Aug 16
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The Painting toward architecture exhibition (1947-52), Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art: Documentation and historical information
ADC staff - 16 Jul 16
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Tremaine Collection artworks and designs in exhibitions (compilation; 1945-present)
ADC staff - 16 Jun 16
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