Cover of the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which made the Bird Girl famous.

The sculpture known as the Bird Girl was created in 1938 by sculptor Sylvia Shaw Judson in Lake Forest, Illinois. It achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Cover of the 1994 John Berendt novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. ... Cover of the 1994 John Berendt novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. ... The cover of the 1994 novel, which features the Bird Girl sculpture. ... Ancient Greeks depiction of ideal form of the body is expressed through sculpture such as this one. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... The cover of the 1994 novel, which features the Bird Girl sculpture. ...

The Bird Girl is cast in bronze and stands 50 inches tall. She is the image of a young girl wearing a simple dress and a sad or contemplative expression, with her head tilted to the left. She stands straight, her elbows propped against her waist as she holds up two bowls out from her sides. The bowls are often described by viewers as "bird feeders". Bronze figurine, found at Öland Bronze is the traditional name for a broad range of alloys of copper. ... A birdfeeder or bird feeder is a device placed out-of-doors, to supply seeds such as millet, sunflower seeds, safflowerseed, rapeseed, or canola seed to birds. ...

The sculpture was commissioned as a garden sculpture for a family in Massachusetts. A thin, 8 year old model named Lorraine Greenman (now Lorraine Ganz) posed for the piece. State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... Italian model Francesca Dani. ...

Only four statues were made from the original plaster cast. The first went to the Massachusetts garden, and now resides in the Ryerson Conservation Area in Deerfield, Illinois. The second was sent to Washington, D.C., and is now located in Reading, Pennsylvania. The third was purchased by a family in Lake Forest and has never relocated. The fourth and most famous statue was bought by Lucy Boyd Trosdal of Savannah, Georgia, who named it "Little Wendy" and set it up at her family's plot in Bonaventure Cemetery. Judson donated the original plaster model to the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois. This article is about the manufacturing process. ... Deerfield is a village located in Lake County, Illinois. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Reading (pronounced red - ing) is the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania. ... Savannah Savannah is a city located in (and the county seat of) Chatham County, Georgia. ... Bonaventure Cemetery, in Savannah, Georgia, is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne, whose daughter Mary married Josias Tatnall, Sr. ... Winnetka is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ...

The Bonaventure Cemetery statue sat virtually unnoticed until 1993, when Random House hired Savannah photographer Jack Leigh to shoot an image for the cover of John Berendt's new book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. At the suggestion of Berendt, Leigh searched the Bonaventure Cemetery for a suitable subject. He found the sculpture next to a grave site at the end of his second day of searching, and had to make the shot quickly as dusk approached. He reportedly spent ten hours in the darkroom adjusting the lighting, giving the photo a moonlit feel and accentuating the halo around the statue's head. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Random House is a publishing division of Bertelsmann AG. It was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they had acquired the Modern Library imprint. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Jack Leigh, a native of Savannah, Georgia was a photographer and author, best known for the cover photograph on the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. ... John Berendt is the author of the best-selling non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. ... A darkroom is a given space, usually a separate area in a building or a vehicle, for photographers to use light-sensitive materials to develop photographs. ...

The cover image was an immediate hit, and Berendt called it "one of the strongest book covers I've ever seen." Published in 1994, the book became a bestseller, and soon people began flocking to Bonaventure Cemetery to see the sculpture. Due to concern about the amount of traffic at the grave site, it was removed from the cemetery and later loaned to the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah for public display. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of top-sellers. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ...

In 1995, Judson's daughter Alice Judson Hayes (aka Alice Ryerson Hayes) had a fifth bronze statue created from a mold. That statue was given to The Ragdale Foundation artists' retreat in Lake Forest. Later, an authorized fiberglass replica was made from the original plaster model for use by Macy's in their display windows; it was later moved to a museum in Savannah. Hayes holds the copyright for the Bird Girl, and has actively defended it by filing lawsuits against unauthorized reproductions, especially full sized replicas. She destroyed the mold that was used to cast the 1995 replica, although the original plaster model still exists. Hayes has licensed smaller scale replicas of the sculpture, which have sold well. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... There is a disputed proposal to merge this article with glass-reinforced plastic. ... Macys Department Store on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan Macys was founded in 1851 by Rowland Hussey Macy as a dry goods store in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts. ...

Warner Bros produced a film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1997, directed by Clint Eastwood. After purchasing the rights to use the sculpture's likeness from Hayes, the studio created a fiberglass replica. The movie incorporated shots of the Bird Girl sculpture on its posters and in the film itself. After the film was completed the replica was sent to the Cliff Dwellers Club in Chicago, Illinois. The WB Shield, used from 2001 to late 2003. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

Leigh sued Warner Bros in November of 1997 for copyright infringement over their shots of the Bird Girl replica in the cemetery, which were similar to Leigh's original cover photograph. The courts ruled that the movie's sequences with the statue were not infringement, but an appeals court found that the photographs used for promotional purposes, such as posters, bore significant similarities and remanded the matter back to the lower courts. Warner Bros and Leigh then settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owners exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. ...

Sylvia Shaw Judson died in 1978. Although she did not see her Bird Girl sculpture achieve fame, she was already a renowned sculptor whose pieces have been on display in such locations as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the White House, and the Massachusetts State House. Jack Leigh died of cancer on May 19, 2004, and is buried in Bonaventure Cemetery, the very place where he took his most famous photograph. 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ... The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. ... Categories: Buildings and structures stubs | Government of Massachusetts | Freedom Trail | U.S. state capitols ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Site dedicated to The Bird Girl (http://www.thebirdgirl.com/story.html)
• Savannah city web site about the sculpture, book and movie (http://www.savannahgeorgia.com/midnight.htm)
• Bird Girl info and Sylvia Shaw Judson bio (http://www.askart.com/artist/J/sylvia_shaw_judson.asp?ID=77561)
• Letter by Alice Hayes regarding Bird Girl replicas (http://www.cliff-chicago.org/birdgirl.html)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil production interview (http://goodandevil.warnerbros.com/cmp/prodinterview.html) with production designer Henry Bumstead.
• Message board posts with info about Jack Leigh (http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=008bFm), including details about the Bird Girl photo, his photographic technique, and his lawsuit against Warner Bros.
• Good and Evil image maker dies (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/07/1086460233798.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true)