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Join us to celebrate Hillwood Museum and Garden's 32nd anniversary with your ICDC friends. Discover and explore one of the most comprehensive collections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian Imperial art outside of Russia, as well as an extensive collection of eighteenth-century French decorative arts.
This is also a great opportunity to meet other ICDC members who appreciate art. Our art gallery and museum tours one of our most popular events and frequently sell out well in advance. Please reserve your tickets early, as capacity is limited.
Exhibition Fragile Persuasion: Russian Porcelain and the Fine Art of Propaganda, on view at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens examines the role that porcelain played in commenting on Russia's tumultuous history, from the late 19th century through the Revolution, the Cold War, and up to the present day. They may look like everyday collectibles, but unlike their counterparts produced in western Europe and North America, the porcelain figurines, plates, and vases in Fragile Persuasion reveal the significant part they have played in addressing Russia's most difficult t social and political issues.
The Georgian-style mansion, designed by John Deibert in 1926, was originally built for Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin. In decorating Hillwood, Marjorie Merriweather Post hired the New York architect Alexander McIlvaine to redesign and expand the old mansion completely so that visitors could view her by-now extensive collection with greater ease.
In renovating the mansion and gardens in the 1950s, Mrs. Post was reviving a forty-year-old practice of estate building now known as the American country house tradition. Architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson has described this tradition as one created by wealthy Americans between 1880 and 1930, who, during that period, commissioned large houses for escape and relaxation on relatively limited tracts of land near major urban centers. Such homes were in the country, but remained close enough to cities to afford an easy commute. Indeed, in the 1920s, the property would have been a rural suburb of Washington.
While no one style of building dominated, these country homes had several characteristics in common. The house at Hillwood, like many other examples of this tradition, includes many spacious areas such as a grand entrance, large libraries, and a pavilion in which guests could dance or watch movies. The estate also had to offer many outlets for outdoor pleasures and sport. So, such houses had to be surrounded by formal and informal gardens. At Hillwood, guests could wander among the azaleas or hone their golfing skills on the putting green. For the owner and visitors, the estate was to be a site where they could enjoy sophisticated urban pleasures within a peaceful and inviting setti ng.
Limited capacity. You must purchase a ticket online to attend. No Exceptions please.
It is very important that you are at the gardens at the designated meeting time. Please meet us inside the Vistor's Center when you arrive so you can meet the ICDC representative who will check you in.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARRIVE AT THE DESIGNATED MEETING LOCATION ON TIME. If you arrive late, you will miss the tour/presentation. Kindly note that we are unable to offer refunds if you miss a portion or all of the tour due to late arrival.
Tickets and Registration
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Tickets are only $19 for a limited time and include admission, the guided tour, and the opportunity to meet and socialize with ICDC members in attendance. Please reserve your tickets soon, as ticket prices will be $25 after a limited time. |
Please note that all ticket sales are final. No refunds or cancelations on online ticket purchases.
Please meet us at the entrance at the designated time.
Hillwood Estate Museums and Gardens
4155 Linnean Avenue NW
Washington, DC
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