I’ve posted on Brookgreen Gardens before (see here), cropping the photos to show just the sculptures. But one of the marvelous features of Brookgreen is that many of the sculptures have a small garden or another area specifically designed to set them off. In this series of posts, with photos taken in early June when the gardens were full of flowers, I’m trying to give a sense of those gorgeous settings.
Awakening, 1946
By Vincent Glinsky (1895-1975). I like the surfaces of this one.
April, 1988
By Charles Parks (1922-2012). Elegant figure.
The Spacewalker, 1978
By Richard McDermott Miller (1922-2004). Last week’s post has the draped version of this, Wind on Water.
Great Danes, 1934
By Anna Hyatt Huntington, atop a gate designed by Huntington and fabricated for Brookgreen Gardens.
The gates with the Great Danes open onto the Magnolia Allee.
The Hungry Loop, 2012
By Herb Mignery (b. 1937). The sculpture depicts an African-American cowboy. “Hungry loop” is used to describe a rodeo roper who desperately needs to win his event. Mignery wrote, “the subject is obviously well worn from his efforts. However, I have portrayed his demeanor and posture to indicate that he will eventually succeed.”
Pledge Allegiance, 1991
By Glenna Goodacre (b. 1939), whose best-known public monument is the Vietnam Woman’s Memorial on the Mall in Washington, DC. Pledge Allegiance seems very suitable for July 4th weekend!
These children’s faces remind me of a line from one of my favorite poems, Sara Teasdale’s “Barter“:
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
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