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The Sculpture Garden In New Orleans
| Player and Violin....Sculpture Garden New Orleans |
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| Photo by Marguerite 2005 |
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WORKS OF ART
The 5-acre Garden opened with 50 sculptures by such artists as Fernando Botero, Antoine Bourdelle, Gaston Lachaise, William Zorach, Henry Moore, Jacques Lipchitz, Barbara Hepworth, Seymour Lipton, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Kenneth Snelson, George Rickey, Elisabeth Frink, Masayuki Nagare, Lynn Chadwick, Louis Bourgeois, Jesus Bautista Moroles, George Segal, Deborah Butterfield, Alison Saar and Joel Shapiro. The sculptures, which are gifts from the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation combined with works from the Museum's permanent
collection, are valued in excess of $25 million.
Forty-one of the 50 works on view in the Sculpture Garden may appear familiar to New Orleanians, as they
were originally part of the Besthoff Foundation formerly on view at K&B Plaza on Lee Circle. For nearly three decades
Sydney and Walda Besthoff have been collecting modern and contemporary sculpture. Their interest in collecting began in 1975
with the purchase of an office building in downtown New Orleans to serve as headquarters for K&B Incorporated, the family-owned
retail drug store chain. Sculptures from the Besthoff Foundation were recently moved from their former home on Lee Circle,
and make up the majority of sculptures in the sculpture garden.
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The Sculpture Garden is situated on a beautifully landscaped site amongst meandering footpaths, reflecting
lagoons, Spanish moss-laden 200-year-old live oaks, mature pines, magnolias, camellias, and pedestrian bridges. The Garden's
three entrances enable easy access from different areas of City Park. The gated main entrance and plaza flanked by two pavilions
is located across Collins Diboll Circle (which encircles the Museum building) at Dueling Oaks Drive. Secondary gated entrances
face The Pavilion of the Two Sisters and Botanical Gardens, and City Park's Casino Building.
The path winds through the beautiful garden, over a shimmering lagoon filled with fish and
turtles, past iris-laden shorelines where graceful herons pose and elegant swans bob in the water, underneath Spanish moss-laden
live oaks that have looked out from this spot since the time of the Louisiana Purchase more than 200 years ago.
In front of each sculpture, the path changes from small to large pavers, so visually challenged
visitors will know they are standing in front of an artwork. The paths connect a series of garden features including the Overlook
Terrace, the Exedra at the end of one of the pedestrian bridges, the monumental Water Steps at one of the secondary entrances,
the elliptical Sculpture Theater containing smaller pieces of sculpture and the Cascade Garden Pool containing Robert Graham's Source Figure. The pathways also frame the elliptical Pine Grove immediately off the main entry plaza and the large
Oak Grove Lawn at the opposite end of the Garden.
TASK:
Create a Sculpture garden in your school yard or your home.
Arrange your sculptures and plant some related plants around your sculptures.
Make plaques with details of who created what.
You may like to use stones, clay, sandstone, or any other materials that are available.
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Please use any of my Art and Lessons.
A Donation would be appreciated.
Thank you for your contribution.
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