Sylvia Shaw Judson was a Masterful Sculptress

 

1.       Sculptor Sylvia Shaw Judson (B:1897-D:1978)  sculpted a seven foot statue of Mary Dyer in 1957, erected at the Massachusetts State House in Boston. Sylvia Shaw Judson gained posthumous notoriety when her statue, Bird Girl, sculpted in 1936, was featured on the book cover and opening scene from the famed book and movie, ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, filmed on location in Savannah Georgia. The statue, Bird Girl is located in Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery. An original bronze copy of Bird Girl recently sold at action in 2021 for more than $390,000! Other works of Sylvia Shaw Judson:

 

-          Naughty Faun, Chicago Botanic Garden (1923)

-          Merchild, Chicago Botanic Garden (1925)

-          Little Gardener at the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at the White House (1929)

-          Girl with a Squirrel at the Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina (1932)

-          Young Woman Dayton, Art Institute, Dayton Ohio (1934)

-          Bird Girl located at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, GA and at the Ryerson Conservation Area in Riverwoods, Il (1936)

-          Girl with Piglet at the Brookfield Children’s Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois (1960)

 

She has over 30 statues on display around the United States.

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Further reading on The Bird Girl: https://amzn.to/3rnEZSV