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Jepson Center location Front view. Bird Girl is a sculpture made in 1936 by Sylvia Shaw Judson in Lake Forest, Illinois.It was sculpted at Ragdale, her family's summer home, and achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The Bird Girl statue, designed both as art and as a birdseed holder, was originally located in Bonaventure Cemetery. A Savannah photographer, Jack Leigh, was commissioned to take a photograph for the cover of the book. The cover image became immediately iconic, with author John Berendt calling it "one of the strongest covers I've ever seen ...
Sylvia Shaw Judson (June 30, 1897 – August 31, 1978) was a professional sculptor who worked first in Chicago and later in Lake Forest, Illinois.She created a broad range of sculptural artworks, notably garden pieces depicting children and animals.
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The photograph featured the Bird Girl statue from Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, [2] where he is now buried. [3] Leigh was a native of Savannah, and a graduate of the Savannah Country Day School and the University of Georgia.
First Cher, now Richard Gere! A day after the legendary singer dropped the F-word during a live chat with Hoda Kotb on the Today show, Gere visited the NBC morning news program on Wednesday, Nov ...
A popular Savannah food truck has opened a new, permanent location for guests to enjoy. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach ...
Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States.Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family's renovated Regency style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy.