The second day of the tours took us to the Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA. They dropped us off in front of the main entrance where we waited until they told us to go around back to the gardens. The Norton is a large brick building with several acres of gardens behind it. http://www.rwnaf.org/gardens/o...
They had beautiful brick walkways.
They have a number of sculptures placed in the garden. This was the first one we came to.
I told Marilyn that we had seen it before. It was at Butchart Gardens.
When I got back to he hotel room I looked at my slide show of the AIS convention in Victoria, BC.
Sure enough, there it was in Buttchart Gardens.
When I was putting together the program I tried looking up the name.
There it was. "Il Porcellini" in Florence Italy.
The way we went around the gardens took us next to Maple Hill.
This is one of the nicest garden boulders I have ever seen. About 2' x 2' x 4'.
The brick paths go on and on.
If you had a penny a brick you could have a nice meal anywhere.
Probably anywhere in the world.
Destiny of the Redman. A complex bronze sculpture.
The lighting was bad and these were the best shots of all the ones I took.
The pond where all the streams end.
Another sculpture.
Canyon Watch by Kent Ullberg
They then rousted us out of the garden and sent us into the gallery.
It was before opening and only part was open to us.
The first area we came to was the Children's Storybook area.
I thought the pig might be from a children's story like Charlotte's Web or some such.
When I looked it up on line I found that it was just a sculpture named 'Eat More Beef'.
I looked for a name for the two kids riding the alligator.
I didn't find a name, but I did find the same sculpture about twenty minutes from my house.
These are beehives in a little courtyard outside the Children's area.
They gave us little bear shaped sample bottles of the honey.
The Gallery had a nice collection. One room was western art with quite a number of pieces by Remington and Russell.
This was my favorite piece. It is a six or seven color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha.
This is his original style. People copied his style and it became known as art nouveau.
