Brookgreen Gardens
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Murrells Inlet, SC 29576, USA
PHONE +1 843-235-6000
The lush, rambling 9,100-acres of Brookgreen Gardens near Myrtle Beach contain one of the most significant collections of outdoor figurative sculpture by American artists in the world. The land is also a wildlife preserve and contains the Lowcountry Zoo and several themed gardens. It was previously the site of four rice plantations. Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington from Connecticut purchased the plantations to create gardens to showcase Anna’s sculptures. When it opened as a public garden in 1932 it was the first public sculpture garden in the country. Today there are more than 2,000 pieces in the collection, with works by Anna Huntington as well as Karl Gruppe, Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, Edith Howland, Donald De Lue, Marion Sanford, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The Lowcountry Trail features a restored rice field from the plantation, four archaeological structural remains from that time, as well as panels that describe slave life on the plantation.
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Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
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South Suburbs, 1 University Dr, University Park, IL 60484, USA
PHONE +1 708-534-4021
Affectionately called theNate, this art park about 40 miles south of Chicago contains 30 large-scale sculptures spread across 100 acres of prairie landscape. Visitors can see pieces like Tony Tasset’s first major piece, the 30-foot tall lumberjack "Paul," Bruce Nauman’s "House Divided," James Brenner’s twisting "Passage," and "Bodark Arc," set into the land itself by artist Martin Puryear. It is so large it can only fully be seen from the air.