Volume 45, Number 13 · August 13, 1998
Partner in the Park
By Witold Rybczynski
Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
by Francis R. Kowsky
Oxford University Press, 378 pp., $45.00
Poor Calvert Vaux, even the title of his own biography gives him second billing. The story of his life. 'To F.L. Olmsted, everything; to C. Vaux, the cut direct,' he once complained. F.L. Olmsted was Frederick Law Olmsted, with whom Vaux designed and built some of the best-known—and best—urban parks in the country, perhaps in the world. Vaux had cause to complain, for it was he who was responsible for Olmsted's becoming a landscape architect in the first place. Vaux invited Olmsted to take part with him in the competition to design Central Park. They worked together and won. Yet, from the very beginning, it was Olmsted who received public recognition as 'the man who made Central Park.'
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