Bird Girl

The sculpture of the Bird Girl was commissioned, as a garden sculpture from Sylvia Shaw Judson in 1938. A young, thin model, Lorraine Greenman (now Lorraine Ganz) posed for the statue. Only three bronzes were made from the original plaster cast.

The first was set up in the Ryerson Wildlife Preserve near Lake Forest, the second was bought by a family in Lake Forest, and the third was bought by Ludy Boyd Trosdal of Savannah, who called it Little Wendy and set it up at her family's plot in Bonaventure Cemetery.

This copy sat virtually unnoticed for fifty years until it was photographed by Jack Leigh for the cover of John Berendt's book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Soon people began flocking to Bonaventure Cemetery to see the statue: eventually the sculpture was donated to the "Telfair Museum of Art" in Savannah.