Editing Folger Shakespeare Library (section)

====West garden====
Sculptor [[Brenda Putnam]] was hired in May 1930 to design a sculpture of [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] for a garden on the west side of the building. Decades of exposure weakened the statue, and after Puck's right hand was found across the street at the Library of Congress in 2000, the original piece was moved. It now sits above the entrance to the Elizabethan Theatre, and an aluminum statue replaced the original in the garden.<ref name=Grant2014-200>{{harvnb|Grant|2014|p=200}}</ref>

The west garden's lawn shrank during the 1959 additions to the library, when part of its space was paved for a new staff parking area.<ref>Wright 1976, p. 152.</ref>

{{wide image|Folger West Front.jpg|720px|An aluminum casting of [[Brenda Putnam]]'s original statue of [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] stands in the west garden of the Folger Shakespeare Library.}}