Gardens + Landscapes

A Look at the Work of Brazilian Landscape Architect Roberto Burle Marx

A new exhibition at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum explores the career of this modernist pioneer

April 22, 2016

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A 1953 Rio magazine cover by Roberto Burle Marx; the gouache painting will appear in a new exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum.
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A 1970 photograph of one of Marx’s most prominent designs, the mosaic promenade alongside the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

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Marx at home, photographed in the 1980s; he designed the tile wall and chandelier.
Fotografia: Isabella Matheus
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Untitled, a gouache and collage on paper by Marx completed in or after 1967.

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Marx’s 1979 design for the garden of the Clemente Gomes residence in Areias.
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The Marx-devised gardens of the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro, photographed in 1938.

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A 1935 ink-and-pencil drawing by Marx of the garden of Casa Forte (City Hall), in Recife.

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