Denver Botanic Gardens Summer Exhibition Lectures

Lecture: Marta McDowell – Cultivation and Canvases: Gardening and American Impressionism

Hosted by: Denver Botanic Gardens

Note: The DBG Summer Exhibition Lecture Series includes multiple accessible dates, with in-person access services available for the September showcase as featured below.

Date & Time: Thursday, 9/11/2025 at 6:30 PM MST- 8:00 PM MST

Location: 1007 York Street, Denver, CO 80206 

About the Event: Join New York Botanical Garden instructor and historian Marta McDowell for this engaging lecture. At the turn of the 20th century, cultivating flowers came into fashion. Enter a group of painters who stepped into the garden for inspiration and subject matter. Join us as we explore how landscape history, horticulture, and art converged in the vibrant movement we now call American Impressionism. Come early to view the exhibition “Blue Grass Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art” on view in the Freyer – Newman Center Art Galleries and included in your ticket price.

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