5. Girl Feeding Three Squirrels by the late Lake Forest-based artist Dorothy Hobbs Boehm was installed outside the Lake Forest Library in 1979 in memory of Louise Wells Kasian, the Library’s director from 1968 to 1978. Following the lead of Sylvia Shaw Judson, Boehm used her own children as models for the creation of endearing life-size figures immersed in a world of enchantment and serenity. In many ways, Girl Feeding Three Squirrels is an embodiment of Boehm’s creative spirit and her love of nature, children, books, and art. Through email correspondence in September 2000, she explained, “The sculpture for me represents the interests of a woman who devoted her life to bringing awareness to others, especially children, through books and the study of our world of nature.” Dorothy Hobbs Boehm, born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Highland Park, Illinois, was the daughter of architect and artist Morris Henry Hobbs. As a child, Boehm was encouraged to work in various artistic media by her father, who let her use his studio to do so. She majored in Fine Arts at the University of Iowa and Northwestern University but put her formal education on hold when the United States entered World War II. She returned to her artistic practice during the mid-1960s when the youngest of her five children was in nursery school. In 1967, she and a friend founded a ceramics studio in Lake Forest and soon after, she began teaching classes for the Deer Path Art League. By the time she received her BFA from Barat College in 1982, Boehm had already established herself as a professional sculptor.