{"product_id":"the-franklin-d-murphy-sculpture-garden-at-ucla","title":"The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor nearly thirty years  starting in the 1960s  Franklin D. Murphy was a dominant figure in the cultural development of Los Angeles. As chancellor of UCLA and later as chief executive of the Times Mirror company  Murphy channeled more than a billion dollars into the citys universities  museums  concert halls  and libraries. The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden  one of his landmark projects  is also one of the UCLA campuss great treasures. Standing as a model for sculpture gardens internationally since its dedication in 1967  the Murphy Garden features seventy-two important modern and contemporary sculptures in a five-acre site designed by landscape architect Ralph Cornell.  This fully-illustrated catalog documents the entire Murphy Garden collection and provides a scholarly entry for each artista sampling of which includes Deborah Butterfield  Alexander Calder  Henri Matisse  Joan Mir  Henry Moore  Isamu Noguchi  Auguste Rodin  and David Smith. Three essaysby Victoria Steele  Cynthia Burlingham  and Marc Treib focus respectively on the role of Franklin Murphy in the gardens planning and execution  the acquisition of the sculptures  and the gardens significance within the history of sculpture garden design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44951910154293,"sku":"ByrdShop_0943739330","price":88.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780943739335.jpg?v=1770429797","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-franklin-d-murphy-sculpture-garden-at-ucla","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}