Rich Jewell submitted these notes on the 2013 Brookgreen Gardens medal. Thanks! Located in Murrells Inlet, SC, Brookgreen Gardens is a National Historic Landmark with the most significant collections of figurative sculpture in the country, including quite a number designed by artists who also designed coins and medals.
-Editor
Today at 3:00PM President Bob Jewell (no relation) hosted the annual President's Council Members Reception. This years sculptor is Greg Wyatt of Grand-View-on-the Hudson, New York.
His work is entitled "The Universal Artist." It depicts the artist's hand working with a sculptor's tool on the obverse and a sculptor/ceramist portrait on the reverse.
The ceremony was followed at 4:30PM by a talk by the sculptor about designing the 2013 Brookgreen Garden Membership medal.
Sculptor Greg Wyatt is an American representational artist who works primarily in cast bronze and is the sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York city.
Some of his other works are:
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Fantasy Fountain (1983) Gramercy Park, NYC
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Peace Fountain (1985) The Cathedral of Saint John The Divine, NYC
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Scholar's Lion (2004) Columbia University, NYC
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Bill of Rights Eagle (1998) and the Learning Tree (2000) Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
For more information on Brookgreen Gardens, see:
www.brookgreen.org
Wayne Homren, Editor
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