Images of sculpture from Brookgreen Gardens--page 3. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

Brookgreen Gardens

This page includes works by Frank Eliscu, James Earle Fraser, and Daniel Chester French.

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Shark Diver
Frank Eliscu
before 1955
bronze, 6' H
Eliscu's study in motion depicts an athletic and graceful Black man diving among sea growth holding onto a shark.

The End of the Trail
James Earle Fraser
1915
bronze, 3' 4" H, 1' 11" L
A student of Saint-Gaudens, Fraser received many governmental commissions. This elegiac work depicts with carefully rendered details a tired Native American rider on his exhausted horse.

Disarmament

Daniel Chester French
1919
bronze, 3' 6" H, 1' ½" W, 1' &three quarters (3/4); D
Most famous for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. C., French here celebrates the end of World War I. The statutette was a model for a temporary statue for the Victory Arch (New York). A helmeted semi-classical warrior with sword and shield, rather than a contemporary soldier, looks at a child--the new hope with the advent of peace.

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Shark Diver Frank Eliscu before 1955 bronze, 6' H Eliscu's study in motion depicts an athletic and graceful Black man diving among sea growth holding onto a shark.


The End of the Trail James Earle Fraser 1915 bronze, 3' 4" H, 1' 11" L A student of Saint-Gaudens, Fraser received many governmental commissions. This elegiac work depicts with carefully rendered details a tired Native American rider on his exhausted horse.

	Disarmament Daniel Chester French 1919 bronze, 3' 6" H, 1' ½" W, 1' &three quarters (3/4); D Most famous for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. C., French here celebrates the end of World War I. The statutette was a model for a temporary statue for the Victory Arch (New York). A helmeted semi-classical warrior with sword and shield, rather than a contemporary soldier, looks at a child--the new hope with the advent of peace.