NAWA Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current exhibitions around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members.

Brookgreen Gardens is the site of the NAWA South Carolina Chapter’s exhibition, Brookgreen Inspires, Women Create, from May 3-July 20, 2025. The sculptures of 39 historical members are on view in addition to the 70 artworks of current South Carolina members.

Brookgreen Gardens is a renowned sculpture garden located south of Murrell’s Inlet, SC, covering over 9,000 acres. Originally a rice plantation and transformed into an award-winning sculpture garden, Brookgreen Gardens boasts an extensive collection of sculptures, flowers, plants, and animals. The visionary behind Brookgreen Gardens was Anna Hyatt Huntington, and it is now considered one of the top sculpture gardens in the US.

The beauty and power of Brookgreen Gardens and its collections are seen through the eyes of sculptors, painters, and photographers who are current members of the National Association of Women Artists. Their interpretations of Brookgreen’s landscapes, sculptures, structures, animals, and other inspirational views are depicted in about 70 artworks juried for this exhibit.

Brookgreen’s founder, Anna Hyatt Huntington, is among the following 39 historical members of NAWA whose works inspired the work exhibited at Brookgreen Gardens:

Jane Botsford Armstrong (1921-2012) NAWA 1972

Babette Bloch (b.1956)  NAWA 1986

Isabel Case Borgatta, FNSS (1921-2017) NAWA 1951

Cornelia Van Auken Chapin (1893-1972) NAWA1938

Gail Sherman Corbett (1871-1952). NAWA1922

Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942) NAWA1908

 Leonda Froehlich Finke (1922-2017) NAWA1954

Laura Gardin Fraser (1889-1966) NAWA1922

 Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) NAWA1914

Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum (1893-1986) NAW A 1918

Margaret Grigor (1912-1981) NAWA1948

Frances Grimes (1869-1963) NAWA 1914

Joan Hartley (b. 1892) NAWA1926

Cleo Hartwig (1907/11-1988)  NAWA1943

Katherine Thayer Hobson (1889-1982) NAWA 1943

Malvina Cornell Hoffman (1885-1966) NAWA1914

Ethel Painter Hood (1908-1982) NAWA1939

Edith Howland (1863-1949) NAWA1922

Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) NAWA 1924

Hazel Brill Jackson (1894-1991) NAWA 1939

Grace Mott Johnson (1882-1967) NAWA1919

Helen Journeay (1893-1942) NAWA1938

Hilda Kristina Lascari (1885-1937) NAWA 1926

Gertrude K. Lathrop (1896-1986) NAWA1924

Barbara Lekberg (1925-2018) NAWA 1952

Eleanor Mary Mellon (1894-1979) NAWA1932

Constance Ortmayer (1902-1988) NAWA1938

 Edith Barretto Parsons (1878-1956) NAWA 1919

Madeleine  Fish Park (1891-1960) NAWA 1936

Brenda Putnam (1890-1975) NAWA 1922

Marion Sanford (1904-1988) NAWA 1938

Janet Scudder (1869-1940) NAWA1914

Rhoda Sherbell (b. 1933) NAWA 1977

Eugenie Shonnard (1886-1978) NAWA 1926

Grace Helen Talbot (1901-1971)  NAWA1923

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1877-1942) NAWA 1914

Katharine Ward Lane Weems (1899-1989) NAWA 1948

Alice Morgan Wright (1881-1975) NAWA 1909

Ruth Yates (1896-1969)  NAWA 1932

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