Watch documentary video clips of this November 19, 2011 program, which celebrated our late chairman Tom Armstrong and the publication of his book, A Singular Vision. The evening program (a total of 68 minutes) emphasized the three themes of the book (art, achitecture, and landscape) and is presented in several segments.

Part 1:  Introduction (5:55 minutes) by Antonia Adezio

Part 2:  Art, presented by museum director Richard Armstrong
This part is in two segments, Art: Part 2A (14:38 minutes) and Art: Part 2B (10:14 minutes)

Part 3:  Architecture, presented by architect Thomas Phifer
This part is also in two segments, Achitecture: Part 3A (12:02 minutes) and Architecture: Part 3B (14:46 minutes)

Part 4:  Landscape (single segment,10:23 minutes), presented by horticulturist Dick Lighty

Part 5:  Closing words (0:53 minutes), by Amory Armstrong Spizzirri

“I have always wanted to live in a greenhouse, surrounded by plants,” wrote Tom Armstrong. After a fire destroyed his colonial revival house on Fishers Island, New York, he commissioned Thomas Phifer and Partners to design a modernist steel-and-glass house on the same site. The result was, as Armstrong wrote, “a realization of my lifelong fantasy—to live in a garden with art.”

On the evening of November 9, 2011, the Garden Conservancy will present Tom Armstrong: A Singular Vision, a celebration of our chairman and the posthumous publication of his book, A Singular Vision, at the Florence Gould Hall.

The evening will include talks on Tom Armstrong's creative integration of
architecture, art, and landscape.

Speakers:

Antonia F. Adezio, president of the Garden Conservancy
Whitney Armstrong, landscape architect and Tom’s son
Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation
Thomas Phifer, architect and founding director of Thomas Phifer and Partners

Richard W. Lighty, founding director of Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware and lifelong gardener

Amory Armstrong Spizzirri, Tom’s daughter

Co-sponsored by the New York School of Interior Design

Tom Armstrong was chairman of the Garden Conservancy from 2007 to 2011. For more than thirty years, he was also the director of four major institutions specializing in American art: the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Whitney Museum, and Andy Warhol Museum. His book, A Singular Vision, is being published posthumously this fall.

Wednesday, November 9

6 – 8 p.m.

A cocktail reception and book sale will follow the talks.

Florence Gould Hall

55 East 59th Street between Park and Madison Avenues

New York, NY 10022

Click here for directions.

Admission

SOLD OUT. Limited seating MAY be available at the door, on a first-come, first-serve basis, if there are no-shows.

Proceeds from this event will establish the Tom Armstrong Memorial Fund at the Garden Conservancy.

Your contribution less $75 per person attending the event is tax-deductible as provided by the law. The Garden Conservancy, Inc. is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code.

For more information or to register by telephone, please call the Garden Conservancy at 845.265.2029 (Cold Spring, NY).