Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" Brookgreen Gardens, Part IV | Eastern North Carolina Now

    This fourth installment of the four-part series stays in the Sculpture Garden and then concentrates on a beautiful sunset. We'll keep the conversation to a minimum, while concentrating on the pictures at hand.     This marble monstrosity, Riders of the Dawn, by Adolf Weinman, is overpowering and fits quite nicely in the scheme of the gardens: Above. I like this bronze sculpture. I'm not clear yet on who the artist is: Below.     images by Stan Deatherage

    One of the wonderful aspects of visiting a sculpture garden, such as Brookgreen Gardens, is that one can inspect the art piece, like the Gilt Bronze rendition of Dionysus, by Edward Francis McCartan, from many different vantage points: Above. Along the Trail Beyond the Wall, we witness the front steps that led to the old plantation estate home of South Carolina Planter Joshua John Ward. The estate is long since gone after it fell into irreparable disrepair and then fire over a century earlier (1901). What is left is a fine piece of high ground, where a number of sculptures reside in time immemorial: Below.     images by Stan Deatherage

    Where the estate home once stood is this reflecting pool, known as the Rosen Carolina Terrace, that serves as the containment reservoir for water that supplies Brookgreen Gardens. Within the pool is the marble sculpture, Alligator Bender, by Nathaniel Choate: Above. On that same bit of high ground, where the manor house once stood, is Pegasus, the winged horse of mythology, the largest sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens and that took nine years to complete. A stone carver, under the supervision of the sculptor, Laura Gardin Fraser, carved the sculpture in Mt. Airy Granite: Below.     images by Stan Deatherage