Bird Girl

32°04′41″N 81°05′42″W / 32.078°N 81.095°W / 32.078; -81.095

Jepson Center location
Front view

Bird Girl is a sculpture made in 1936 by Sylvia Shaw Judson in Lake Forest, Illinois. It was sculpted at Ragdale, her family's summer home, and achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Originally exhibited as Girl with Bowls at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1938, it was also exhibited as Fountain Figure, Standing Figure, and Peasant Girl. A 1967 book by Judson first referred to it as Bird Girl.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Telfair was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson (1967). For Gardens and Other Places: The Sculpture of Sylvia Shaw Judson. Chicago: H. Regnery Co.
  3. ^ "Lot 32 - Sylvia Shaw Judson (American, 1897-1978), Bird Girl". Freeman's. Philadelphia. June 6, 2021. Retrieved November 12, 2021.