Tenth Annual Silent Auction Features Works by Celebrated Landscape Architects and Artists

Live Oak and Flooded Rice Field, Middleton Place, photo by Alan Ward.

Later this month The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will be hitting the road and heading west to Denver, Colorado. The Mile-High City will play host to the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and TCLF's Silent Auction, one of our biggest events of the year featuring one-of-a-kind sketches, paintings, photographs, and jewelry by landscape architects and photographers from across the nation. The auction is made possible by Presenting Sponsor, DeepRoot, and Educational Partner, ASLA, and benefits the Pioneers of American Landscape Design initiative.

(upper) Mutamba, Roberto Burle Marx; (lower) Cloud Gate, Brian K.
Thomson.Nearly 70 pieces of art will be on display for the two-day event, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday, November 22nd and 23rd. Featured works by landscape architects include: Mutamba, a signed lithograph by renowned Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) whose designs included the Copacabana Beach promenade in Rio de Janeiro with its iconic black and white paving; award-winning Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier’s Fragments of Blue Sticks Garden, from an installation produced for the first International Garden Festival in 2000 and featured on the cover of Landscape Architecture Magazine; and paintings by ASLA Medal winner Michael Van Valkenburgh, and Ken Smith, designer of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art roof garden. In addition there will be more than a dozen works by photographers from across the county including Lauren Henkin’s view of New York’s Central Park, Michael Kenna’s ethereal woodland scene Le Desert de Retz, Study 24, France, Matthew Pillsbury’s Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, Gray Malin’s Top of Aspen Mountain, Andrew Moore’s image of a lush Cuban forest, Garie Waltzer’s Rockefeller Center Rooftop Gardens, and more.

Bidding opens at 9:00am on Saturday morning November 22nd and closes at 4:00pm sharp on Sunday. Stop by TCLF's silent auction, booth #1949 in the Expo Hall at the Colorado Convention Center. This is always a well-attended and entertaining event. However, if you can’t make it all the way to Denver, the auction catalog is online, and absentee bidding can be arranged by contacting us by email. 

Don’t miss other great Denver events, including the Rocky Mountain Mod reception on Friday, November 21st – a twilight gathering at the Denver Botanic Gardens for the launch of the What's Out There® Denver Guide and to honor the exceptional stewardship of Denver’s park system by Don and Carolyn Etter.