Procter Garden
Sculpture Fountain
Gerald Ogylvie Laing

The fountain, added to the Procter Garden in 1994, was created by the Scottish sculptor Gerald Ogylvie Laing and donated by Beatrice Procter's daughter, Beatrice Frelinghuysen.

 
Woman with wet hair
She is shown at the moment of throwing back her luxurious head of hair, from which water streams into the shell on which she stands.
Mr. Laing divides his time between New York and the Highlands of Scotland, exhibiting his work on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo by Betsy Palmer Thompson

 Examples of his work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery in London, and in many other prestigious public and private collections
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