The Young Diana, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, set in the Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina.
The Gardens were set up in 1930 by New York industrialist Archer Huntington and his sculptor wife, Anna Hyatt Huntington, as a natural outdoor setting for Mrs. Huntington's sculpture and for the preservation of southeastern flaura and fauna. It was the first 'public' sculpture garden in the US.
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That is truly breathtaking.
Nice find PC.
Wasn't this the statue that was made via Bette Davis modeling for it when she was 18 yrs old?
Cast in 1924, so likely modeled the year before; Davis was born 1908, so she'd have been fifteen when this was modeled.
Indeed, I've been researching this and can't find definitive statements ("I modeled for Mrs. Huntington when I was 15") but can find enough to piece together to suggest this is a portrait of Bette Davis at 15. It wasn't uncommon in the early 20th century for women sculptors and some men as well to sculpt what we'd now call underage girls in the nude or seminude; see works by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth who worked with at least one girl of 13, a ballerina in training; Edward McCartan who hired young girls through the New York art school of whose sculpture department he was chairperson.
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