Judith B. Tankard

Member since: 2022

Proposed by: Beacon Hill Garden Club, Zone I

Seconded by: Cambridge Plant & Garden Club, Zone I

Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, author, lecturer, and preservation consultant. Her work has been seminal in raising the awareness of the gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement and of 19th and 20th-century women garden designers and landscape architects Gertrude Jekyll, Beatrix Farrand, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Nellie B. Allen, and Rose Standish Nichols.

For two decades, Ms. Tankard taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University and is a popular lecturer in the US and Britain. She authored and co-authored ten illustrated books on landscape history, including the prize-winning Ellen Shipman and the American Garden and Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes, the latter being the inspiration for the first documentary on Farrand, The Life, and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand. Ms. Tankard was a featured speaker on the video.
Affiliated with many organizations, Ms. Tankard was the New England Garden History Society founder and a long-time board member of the Beatrix Farrand Society.

Honorary member since 2022.