Edith Barretto Parsons, Duck Baby, bronze recast, original 1911
By the early 1900’s, Edith Parsons was a well-known east coast based garden sculptor. Her work focuses on the untouched beauty and delights of nature, especially in her best known figures of small children and animals. No matter the subject, her joyous human figures and beasts alike, have infectious smiles. Her popularity as a sculptor has derived from this joyful expression of the connection between children and nature. In this work, this is reinforced by how the hair of the little girl flies out to the sides resembling duck wings and the human-like expressions of the ducks.
Click the links below for more information about this sculpture and artist:
- A Family of Artists
- Casting of Parsons’ Statuettes
- Tradition and Edith Barretto Parsons’ Frog Baby at Ball State University
- Video of a good luck tradition at Wabash College
Bibliography
Brandon Wongngamnit