page_title: Brookgreen Gardens
section_title: Sculpture gardens
hierarchical_section_title: Brookgreen Gardens / Public landmark / Sculpture gardens
caption_attribution_description: Brookgreen Gardens - in Anne's Garden. Tortoise Fountain, by Janet Scudder.
context_page_description: Brookgreen Gardens is a sculpture garden and wildlife preserve, located just south of Murrells Inlet, in South Carolina. The 9,100-acre property includes several themed gardens with American figurative sculptures placed in them, the Lowcountry Zoo, and trails through several ecosystems in nature reserves on the property. It was founded by Archer Milton Huntington, stepson of railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington, and Anna Hyatt Huntington, his wife, to feature sculptures by Anna and her sister Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor along with other American sculptors. Brookgreen Gardens was opened in 1932, and is built on four former rice plantations, taking its name from the former Brookgreen Plantation.
context_section_description: About 1445 works of American figurative sculpture are displayed at the Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington Sculpture Garden. Many of the works are creations of sculptress Hyatt Huntington, but other artists are also featured. Walkways and garden paths link the sculptures in their distinctive garden, fountain, or landscape settings, with vistas of the scenery surrounding them.
  A 1,600-acre (650 ha) area of Brookgreen Gardens was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.  The sculpture garden portion, 551 acres (223 ha), of Brookgreen Gardens was included in the designation of Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens as a National Historic Landmark in 1984. Atalaya Castle is just across U.S. 17 which cuts through the former combined Huntington property.
  The sculpture gardens includes works by:
  Robert Alexander Baillie
  Gutzon Borglum
  Joseph Lorkowski Boulton
  Clio Hinton Bracken
  Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
  Henry Clews
  Joseph Bailey Ellis
  Sally James Farnham
  Joseph Charles Fleri
  Vincent Glinsky
  Karl Gruppe
  Ethel Painter Hood
  Edith Howland
  Cecil de Blaquiere Howard
  Anna Hyatt Huntington
  Leo Lentelli
  Donald De Lue
  Albino Manca
  Edward Francis McCartan
  Eleanor Mary Mellon
  Roland Hinton Perry
  Attilio Piccirilli
  Furio Piccirilli
  Horatio Piccirilli
  Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  Louis St. Gaudens
  Marion Sanford
  Janet Scudder
  Amory Coffin Simons
  Erwin Springweiler
  Charles Eugene Tefft
caption: The Tortoise Fountain by Janet Scudder
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