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The Society of the Four Arts located at 100 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach is home to peaceful, colorful gardens that you can visit. Additionally, the Garden Club of Palm Beach offers free community events. Both the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden and Four Arts Botanical Garden are free entry!

The Garden Club of Palm Beach planted the botanical garden in 1938. The gardens are open from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. each day except for major holidays, and they close during inclement weather. Parking is available for free.

Free docent-led tours of the sculpture garden are offered at 10:00 a.m. Wednesdays from December through April. Individuals and groups of up to ten. Please arrive 15 minutes early and meet the docent at the garden entrance next to the King…

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The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is the former home of sculptor Ann Weaver Norton. Ann was the widow of Ralph Hubbard Norton. The two-acre estate showcases a collection of 250 species of tropical palms adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway and next to downtown West Palm Beach. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

World-renowned botanist Sir Peter Smithers designed the Gardens as a unique and valuable tropical palm garden. Ann Norton’s monumental, mysterious sculptures built in situ over a period of 15 years were meant to be discovered as surprises amongst the thick, tropical jungle-like vegetation. The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is the largest tract of botanical garden containing enormous sculptures and it was…

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Your summer starts here at the Norton Museum of Art and the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens.  Enjoy the Palm Beach County outdoors with a touch of culture with a Sculpture Garden Tour or a visit to the museum. The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Inc. is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) operating foundation established in 1977 by the prominent sculptor Ann Weaver Norton.

Explore the sculptures in the garden with Museum docents on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Works by major artists including Keith Haring, Fernand Leger and others are on view.  Enjoy a very special long-term loan, a monumental work by Charles Ray entitled Huck and Jim.

The 30-minute tours beat the heat and provide morning guests with introductions to varied modern and contemporary…

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As a part of the most recent installment of the Art in Public Places initiative sculptures by renowned Wellington artist Colbert C. Collins will soon be on display in various locations in the Village of Wellington. Collins’ bronzes reflect an inner vision that life is “a discovery of the inherent design and relationship between all things.”

His pieces illustrate a fascination with movement and the significant bonds between people. Collins sculptures and collections span four continents, over 2public and private facilities, and more than 3,000 homes. His images range from small 6-inch representational pieces to large 15-foot steel abstracts.  Four of Collins’ sculptures will be showcased in the following areas: Wellington Community Center, Village…

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