Georges Bridges began sculpting in 1921 after being encouraged to try it by famed sculptor Lorado Taft, who happened to be over for dinner at the Pink House. He dug up clay from the yard using a screen from the house to filter out the rocks. He sculpted a skier as his first piece. The following year he and Eleanor attended his first formal art training, at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts and then in Europe. His best known sculpture is that of Brother Bryan in Five Points, Birmingham. His last completed work was a statue of Thomas Jefferson. His wife, Eleanor, sent the piece to New York after his death to be made into iron in 1976. It sits beside the Jefferson Country Courthouse today.