Art critic Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer publishes Art Out-of-Doors, presenting landscape design as an art form on par with architecture. The book is required reading in many male-only landscape architecture courses.

Judith K. Major. “Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer.” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, accessed July 28, 2021. https://tclf.org/pioneer/mariana-van-rensselaer/biography-mariana-van-rensselaer

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold) bronze relief by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1888. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Paintings and Sculpture on WikiCommons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._Schuyler_Van_Rensselaer_(Mariana_Griswold)_MET_DT94_(cropped).jpg] https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12012