Brookgreen Gardens, S.C. : acoustiguide tour of the sculpture garden
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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Biographical / Historical...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 1 Container Listing ...... Brookgreen Gardens, S.C. : acoustiguide tour of the sculpture garden AAA.broogard
Collection Overview
Repository: Archives of American Art
Title: Brookgreen Gardens, S.C. : acoustiguide tour of the sculpture garden
Identifier: AAA.broogard
Date: 1971
Creator: Brookgreen Gardens
Extent: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording)
Language: English .
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Provenance unknown. Restrictions Untranscribed; use requires an appointment.
Biographical / Historical
Sculpture garden, Murrells Inlet, S.C. Est. 1931 by Archer Huntington and his wife, sculptor Anna Hyatt- Huntington. The garden features the work of American figurative sculptors from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as Southeastern flora and fauna.
Scope and Contents
An acoustiguide tour of Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina narrated by A. Hyatt Mayor, the nephew of sculptor Anna Hyatt-Huntington, with an introduction by the director at that time, Gurdon Lucius Tarbox, Jr. Mayor discusses sculpture in the collection by numerous sculptors including Anna Hyatt-Huntington, Charles Rumsey, Daniel Chester French, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Excerpts from interviews with Anna Hyatt- Huntington are included in the recording.
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Animal sculpture Figure sculpture, American Outdoor Sculpture -- South Carolina Sculpture -- 19th century
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Sculpture gardens -- South Carolina Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
Types of Materials: Sound recordings
Names: Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973 Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980 Tarbox, Gurdon L.
Occupations: Sculptors
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