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AN EXHIBIT OF ART

Bonsai at the Lynden Sculpture Garden

By Jack Douthitt, USA
Photographs by Kyle Talbott

Top right; The view as you n 1926 a Milwaukee Industrialist, Harry Bradley,
approach the main building, married Peg and they bought a farm several miles
with Bernhard Heiliger’s
“Vegetative Sculpture I” (1959) Ioutside the city. They brought in a landscape firm
in the foreground. to design a park like setting around their dream home
Bottom right; A shimpaku and in the 1950s they started buying sculpture for the
juniper against the lacy foliage landscape. Over the years they collected more than
of trees in the landscape. fifty pieces of monumental sculpture. Many different
artists are represented in the collection including
Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Alexander conjunction with one of their large events. Their offer
Liberman, and Isamu Noguchi. Five years ago the was readily accepted and a team led by Michelle Zim-
property opened to the public as The Lynden Sculpture mer went to work.
Garden (LSG). Their website can be found at <www. The central goal of the bonsai exhibit team was to
lyndensculpturegarden.org> insert the bonsai into the existing environment in the
When LSG was planning their Fifth Anniversary same manner as the other pieces of sculpture. They
Celebration as a public facility, they asked the local wanted to exhibit each bonsai in a manner that was
bonsai community to stage a bonsai exhibit as a part sensitive to its surroundings and in harmony with the
of the festivities. Several bonsai exhibitions and work- art that is already there. A large terrace immediately
shops have been previously held at LSG, but never in outside the main building already contained several
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