James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden

James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden (site view, detail of We Whistle While We Work tableau, Black River, Town of Wilson, Wisc.), c. 1942–1957; John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection.
James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden (site detail, Native American family tableau, Black River, Town of Wilson, Wisc.), c. 1942–1957; John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection.
James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden (site detail, bears and tree post, Black River, Town of Wilson, Wisc.), c. 1942-1957; John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection.

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James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden

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A whimsical woodland path interspersed with lifelike concrete sculptures, the James Tellen Woodland Garden is open to the public seven days a week. Stewarded by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the garden showcases artist James Tellen’s love of nature and his deep-seated spirituality with a series of seventy-five concrete sculptures created on his family’s property in Black River, Wisconsin, just a few miles from Sheboygan. The garden contains an assembly of both life-size and miniature characters that included depictions of Native Americans and frontiersmen, religious and patriotic icons, and an assortment of poignant, devout, and sometimes humorous tableaux.

Visitors can see the site as part of the Wandering Wisconsin consortium, a group of nine art-environment sites situated across the state.