Thomas Church was a renowned 20th century landscape architect based in California. He is recognized as one of the pioneer landscape designers of Modernism in garden landscape design known as the “California Style”. Church was photographed by Karsh in 1960 for House Beautiful. and this image from the Sitting is freshly digitized.

Others who were photographed for House Beautiful include fiber artist Lenore Tawney, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and architect and designer T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings. Click here to see the complete list of Sitters.