Laura Gardin

Laura Gardin Fraser

Born 1889, Chicago, IL

Died 1966, Westport, CT

 

The largest sculpture at Brookgreen also took the longest to create.  It was nearly nine years from inception to completion.  A stone carver under the supervision of the sculptor carved the sculpture in Mt. Airy Granite.  After they were roughed out at the quarry in North Carolina, the large granite blocks were set up on site at Brookgreen, next to the full-scale plaster model, and the carving was finished in place over a four-year period. Pegasus, the winged horse of mythology, is an ancient symbol of inspiration.  Laura Gardin Fraser designed this work to symbolize the person born with vision and imagination who soars with Pegasus.

 

Pegasus

Granite, 1946-1954

15 ft. 3 in. x 15 ft. 9 in. x 7 ft. 8 in.

Signed: LAURA GARDIN FRASER 1946-1951 SCULPTOR / E. H. RATTI CARVER 1954

S.1946.006