The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art
By: Miranda Lash
Contributors: New Orleans Museum of Art
Publisher: Scala Publishers; New Orleans Museum of Art
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781857597394
Subjects: Catalogs; Modern Sculpture; Sculpture gardens; Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Description: "The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art is one of the foremost sculpture gardens in the United States. The nearly five-acre Garden opened in 2003 with fifty works of art by modern and contemporary artists of international renown, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, George Segal, and Louise Bourgeois. Today the Garden boasts sixty-four works of art (a number which continues to grow), showcased in a unique natural setting of meandering footpaths, reflective lagoons, and mature live oaks and pines. The book explores the history of this award-winning space and highlights work from its superb collection, which spans from the neoclassical figures of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to twenty-first century innovations by Anish Kapoor and Leandro Erlich. This book provides, for the first time, indepth entries on each of the outstanding sculptures in the garden, and an exploration of the vision of the Garden's founding patrons: Sydney and Walda Besthoff. With stunning photography and detailed information on both the Garden's artwork and plant life, this book will be a reference guide for years to come."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-190).
Table of contents: title: Yaacov Agam, Siah Armajani, Arman, Saul Baizerman, Leonard Baskin, Fernando Botero, Antoine Bourdelle, Louise Bourgeois, Fritz Bultman, Scott Burton, Deborah Butterfield, Saint Clair Cemin, Lynn Chadwick, Sandro Chia, Pietro Consagra, Lesley Dill, Leandro Erlich, Sorel Etrog, Luciano Fabro, Audrey Flack, Elisabeth Frink, Robert Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Linda Howard, Robert Indiana, Jean-Robert Ipousteguy, Menashe Kadishman, Anish Kapoor, Ida Kohlmeyer, Gast6on Lachaise, Jacques Lipchitz, Seymour Lipton, Rene Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship, Giacomo Manzu, Allan McCollum, Henry Moore, Jesus Moroles, Masayuki Nagare, Minoru Niizuma, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Jaume Plensa, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Rona Pondick, Laila Pullinen, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, George Rickey, Auguste Rodin, GeorgeRodrigue, Richard Rosenblum, Alison Saar, Auguste Saint-Gaudens, Michael Sandle, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, Kenneth Snelson, Stephen De Staebler, Do-Ho Suh, Ossip Zadkine, William Zorach.