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From Abakanowicz to Zadkine: Not your average sculpture garden

— July 2012

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Sean Henry. Lying Man, 2003. Bronze and oil paint, 82 x 155 x 76 inches. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gift of Fred and Lena Meijer.

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In a five-storey greenhouse that demands comparison (if with a bit of imagination) with Paxton’s Great Palace of 1851, I explored a Victorian garden, admiring not only the flowers and traditional wrought-iron furnishings, but also sculptures by Rodin and Degas,which were beautifully set against ferns, aroids and orchids.  Outside, surrounded by wildflowers and...

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