<P> Coordinates: 32 ° 4.641 ′ N 81 ° 5.355 ′ W ﻿ / ﻿ 32.077350 ° N 81.089250 ° W ﻿ / 32.077350; - 81.089250 Bird Girl is a sculpture made in 1936 by Sylvia Shaw Judson in Lake Forest, Illinois . It was sculpted at Ragdale, her family's summer home, and achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994). </P> <P> Bird Girl is cast in bronze and stands 50 inches (130 cm) tall . She is the image of a young girl wearing a simple dress and a sad or contemplative expression, with her head tilted toward her left shoulder . She stands straight, her elbows propped against her waist as she holds up two bowls out from her sides . The bowls are often described by viewers as "bird feeders". </P> <P> The sculpture was commissioned as a garden sculpture for a family in Massachusetts . A slight, eight - year - old model named Lorraine Greenman (now Lorraine Ganz) posed for the piece . </P> <P> Only four statues were made from the original plaster cast . The first went to the Massachusetts garden . The second was sent to Washington, D.C. and is now located in Reading, Pennsylvania . The third was purchased by a family in Lake Forest and has never relocated . The fourth and most famous statue was bought by a family in Savannah, Georgia, who named it Little Wendy and set it up at the family's plot in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia . It has since been relocated to Telfair Museums' Jepson Center for the Arts, where it is on display for museum visitors . Judson donated the original plaster model to the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois . </P>

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