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Freeman s to bring Sylvia Shaw Judson s Bird Girl to auction for the first time
This life-size statue of a nine-year-old girl holding a pair of shallow bowls in outstretched arms has been in the same private family collection in Reading, Pennsylvania for generations.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-Freemans will present Sylvia Shaw Judsons Bird Girl, the highlight of its June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. This fresh-to-market work is one of the most recognizable American sculptures to ever appear at auction. Conceived in 1936 by the Chicago-based Judson, Bird Girl was cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York. One of four extant original bronzes, this iconic image is immediately familiar from Jack Leigh s haunting photograph used as the cover of John Berendts 1994 best-selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.