Outdoor Sculpture

The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s grounds feature sculptures that delight visitors of all ages. From Deborah Butterfield’s Kua to Burt Brent’s The Heavyweight, a range of artistic styles can be found. Another highlight is Kent Ullberg’s striking bronze whooping cranes that stand as iconic sentinels at the garden’s entrance.

Artist and landscape architect Bonnie Gale and her assistant Jonna Evans created a seven-foot-tall, domed, willow structure, Living Willow Dreams, June 24-30, 2018, in the Woodson Art Museum’s Margaret Woodson Fischer Sculpture Garden. Bonnie Gales’s living willow sculpture project is supported by a grant from The Dudley Foundation. Learn more about Living Willow Dreams in this interview with the artist.
 
See The Museum’s nearly thirty-foot-tall, site-specific sculpture, The Dance, of a sandhill-crane pair created June 21-25, 2016, from saplings by Boston artists Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein, known as The Myth Makers.

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Outdoor Sculpture Highlights

Paul Rhymer, Feeder Frenzy, 2013, bronze on basalt

Deborah Butterfield, Kua, 1995, bronze

Bart Walter, Ostrich (5/5), 2000, bronze

Geoffrey Dashwood, Prince Marvin, 2012, bronze

Gwynn Murrill, Eagle III, 2010, bronze

Edith Barretto Parsons, Duck Baby, ca. 1915, bronze

Kent Ullberg, Great Blue Heron, 1983, bronze

Walter T. Matia, Three Wild Turkeys (5/7), 2002, bronze