Florida - Palm Beach - Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden - Edward Fenno Hoffman III's Reaching
Reaching (1963), a bronze sculpture by Edward Fenno Hoffman III (American, 1916 - 1991), was given in memory of Margaret Richardson Trout, by Her Family, on November 21, 1990. The 4-foot tall sculpture depicts a woman, oman is seated on a rectangular column with her knees bent and only her toes touching the ground. Her hair is in a bun, and her upper torso is bent forward over a child, her hands holding the child's legs. The child's face is over the woman's knees, with the proper right hand on the woman's proper right hand. A frog is sitting on a lily pad facing the woman.
The Society of the Four Arts is a nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1936 by a group of prominent Palm Beach residents to meet the cultural needs of the growing resort community. The four arts which constitute the Societys mission are music, drama, literature, and art.
The sculpture garden of the Society honors the memory of Philip Hulitar, a prominent American couturier and Palm Beach resident who restored several historic houses here. In March 1965, the Four Arts members purchased the vacant lot at the corner of Royal Palm Way and Cocoanut Row from the Walton family. In 1967 and 1968, the Society bought the two adjoining lots. By 1979 the combined lots were still unimproved, when Mrs. John Clifford Folger, then chairman of The Four Arts Landscape Committee, discussed with Philip Hulitar the need for beautification, and a plan emerged to establish a sculpture garden.
Florida - Palm Beach - Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden - Edward Fenno Hoffman III's Reaching
Reaching (1963), a bronze sculpture by Edward Fenno Hoffman III (American, 1916 - 1991), was given in memory of Margaret Richardson Trout, by Her Family, on November 21, 1990. The 4-foot tall sculpture depicts a woman, oman is seated on a rectangular column with her knees bent and only her toes touching the ground. Her hair is in a bun, and her upper torso is bent forward over a child, her hands holding the child's legs. The child's face is over the woman's knees, with the proper right hand on the woman's proper right hand. A frog is sitting on a lily pad facing the woman.
The Society of the Four Arts is a nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1936 by a group of prominent Palm Beach residents to meet the cultural needs of the growing resort community. The four arts which constitute the Societys mission are music, drama, literature, and art.
The sculpture garden of the Society honors the memory of Philip Hulitar, a prominent American couturier and Palm Beach resident who restored several historic houses here. In March 1965, the Four Arts members purchased the vacant lot at the corner of Royal Palm Way and Cocoanut Row from the Walton family. In 1967 and 1968, the Society bought the two adjoining lots. By 1979 the combined lots were still unimproved, when Mrs. John Clifford Folger, then chairman of The Four Arts Landscape Committee, discussed with Philip Hulitar the need for beautification, and a plan emerged to establish a sculpture garden.