John Ford’s fruitful 1939 included his first two films with Henry Fonda—Young Mr. Lincoln, shown here last year, and this title, Ford’s first Technicolor outing, about New York’s Mohawk Valley in the late eighteenth century.
Over a professional life spanning seven decades, Edward Steichen (1879–1973) established himself as one of the most important figures in the history of photography. What is less known is that for much of that time, Steichen devoted himself to the nurturing of plants and gardens, an activity that sustained him and through which he developed ardently held beliefs regarding the relationship of art, nature, and creativity.