Enjoy a day brimming with art, beauty, & nature — while helping us care for this historic landscape!
We’ll kick off the day with prosecco and a garden-fresh lunch, then hear from American art scholar Elliot Bostwick Davis— a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will invite us into the world of one of America’s most iconic artists. The author of Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape will share how Hopper’s summers in 1920s Gloucester, MA set the stage for his monumental career, as well as how his wife and fellow artist, Josephine Nivison, became the driving force behind Hopper’s artistic evolution. After lunch, she will sign copies of this gorgeous book, which The Washington Post called “lavishly produced . . . thoroughly researched . . . and beautifully writtten.”
It will be an extraordinary day with much to learn and explore — including opportunities to tour Miss Florence’s gardens in bloom, take in our stunning exhibition, Revelations: A Decade of Collecting, 2016-2026, and be delighted by Blooms with a View — floral arrangements inspired by works on view.
Elegant dining by Gourmet Galley. Garden party attire suggested (and hats encouraged!)
Gather your favorite garden-lovers and make a beautiful day of it at the FloGris!
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Salad Nicoise with choice of tuna or grilled chicken, fingerling potatoes, hard boiled farm egg, Nicoise olives, haricot verts with lemon vinaigrette
Vegan option: Salad Nicoise with portobello mushrooms
Dessert: Strawberry tiramisu (lady fingers with strawberry mascarpone mousse, fresh strawberries, and mint)
The 16th Annual Garden Luncheon is generously sponsored by Pasta Vita, The Cooley Gallery, H. Kaye Griffin, Norman Needleman & Jacqueline Hubbard, Seasalt Medical Aesthetics, The Bowes Team/REMAX on the Bay, Madison Earth Care, and Montville Florist.
