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Folayemi Wilson, Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities

Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities is an ongoing project of the Lynden Sculpture Garden and is open to the public April through October (weather permitting). The Cabinet remains at the center of our education and public programming, with new programming each summer. In the summer of 2016, Chicago-based artist Folayemi Wilson unveiled Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet […]

David Robbins, Open-Air Writing Desk

Public Service Announcement (Independent Imagination) from David Robbins on Vimeo. Public Service Announcement (Independent Imagination) is a 2014 video from artist and writer David Robbins featuring the Open-Air Writing Desk at Lynden. It is one of four videos by Robbins shown at the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.

Alexander Liberman, Axeltree

Alexander Liberman was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine) in 1912. Liberman was a sculptor, painter, photographer, writer and editor. He is best known for his monumental sculptures and his long tenure as the editorial director of Condé Nast’s publications. Liberman spent his early years in Russia. During the Revolution his mother started the country’s […]

George Sugarman, Trio

George Sugarman, the artist best known for taking sculpture off the pedestal and placing it directly on the ground, was born in New York City in 1912. He graduated from City College in 1934 and served in the Navy from 1941 to 1945. After the war, Sugarman attended night classes at the Museum of Modern […]