Voratio - Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
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flyingmoose
N 33° 31.216 W 079° 05.862
17S E 676667 N 3710586
Located within the Peace Garden for children.
Waymark Code: WM1431G
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2021
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This sculpture is one of many within Brookgreen Gardens and within the Peace Garden it is one of many depicting a creature from the natural world. While the sculpture is antique marble, it sits upon a brick pedistal.
Marker Text:
Voratio
Jane B. Armstrong (Born 1921)
Vermont Verde antique marble, 1969
Gift of the sculptor
In 1964, after careers in teaching and journalism, Jane Armstrong began to study sculpture with direct carvers Jose de Creeft and John Hovannes. Within three years, she began to win awards. The subjects of her work are drawn primarily from nature, capturing in stone the rhythms of living creatures. In direct carving, form and slow take precedence over detail and anatomy. Armstrong depicted this sphinx caterpillar in a rounded, chunky form and gave the stone a high polish.