I’m back with another collection of photos I found as I was tagging thousands of garden photos, after learning from Ben that I could do without buying more software. This time it’s art in the garden, starting with small ones for smaller yards. I love them all.
Clockwise from upper left; Buffalo, NY; Scott Arboretum and 2 gardens on Long Island, NY.
This next batch has two easy focal points for small gardens – the mirror and blue spheres. (Love the blue!) About the two large installations, I’m not a fan. The hanging strips remind me of the French artist Christo, and not in a good way.
Turning to art works far too large for our own gardens but very cool to experience, let’s go first to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. (I wrote about its landscape here.) This is my favorite of the many Chihuly works I’ve seen in public gardens.
Next, I love this nest in Winterthur Garden’s “Enchanted Woods,” which really IS enchanting, with fun features for kids to climb on and in, like this one.
Finally, this is my favorite of the many works in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. It’s an untitled mosaic that Marc Chagall made for the back wall of a friend’s garden in Georgetown. The friend died in 2009 and her will stipulated that the mosaic be donated to this museum. (This article tells the story, including what it took to move it.)…