Anna Hyatt Huntington

Anna Hyatt Huntington
Anna Hyatt Huntington
Birth name	Anna Vaughn Hyatt
Born	(1876-03-10)March 10, 1876 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	October 4, 1973(1973-10-04) (aged 97)
Nationality	American
Field	Sculpture
Training	Art Students League of New York
Influenced	Gutzon Borglum Hermon Atkins MacNeil
Awards	Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur

Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (March 10, 1876 – October 4, 1973) was an American sculptor.

Life and career

Huntington was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father, Alpheus Hyatt, was a professor of paleontology and zoology at Harvard University and MIT, and served as a contributing factor to her early interest in animals and animal anatomy. Anna Hyatt first studied with Henry Hudson Kitson in Boston, who threw her out after she identified equine anatomical deficiencies in his work (Rubenstein 1990). Later she studied with Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Gutzon Borglum at the Art Students League of New York. In addition to these formal studies she spent many hours doing extensive study of animals in various zoos and circuses. She was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.^{[citation needed]}

Huntington and her husband, Archer Milton Huntington, founded Brookgreen Gardens near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was a member of the National Academy of Design and the National Sculpture Society and a donation of $100,000 from her and her husband made possible the NSS Exhibition of 1929. Because of her husband's enormous wealth and the shared interests of the couple, the Huntingtons were responsible for founding fourteen museums and four wildlife preserves.^{[citation needed]} They also gifted Collis P. Huntington State Park, consisting of approximately 800 acres (3.2 km²) of land in Redding, Connecticut, to the State of Connecticut. She was the aunt of the art historian A. Hyatt Mayor.^{[citation needed]}

Death and legacy

Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington died October 4, 1973. She is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, next to her husband Archer Milton Huntington who preceded her in death on December 11, 1955.

Her papers are held at Syracuse University, and the Archives of American Art.

Public equestrian monuments

For more details on this topic, see Anna Hyatt Huntington/Works of Anne Hyatt Huntington .

Her animal sculptures, figures of both life-sized and in smaller proportions, are in museums and collections throughout the United States. She spent two years collaborating with Abastenia St. Leger Eberle to produce Man and Bull, which was exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.

Two statues by Anna Hyatt Huntington grace the entrance to Collis P. Huntington State Park in Redding and Bethel, Connecticut. One statue shows a mother bear with her cubs and the other statue shows two wolves howling. The park was donated to the state of Connecticut by Anna Hyatt Huntington and Archer M. Huntington. In her Horse Trainer (Balboa Park, San Diego) she enlivens the theme of the Roman marble Horse Tamers of the Quirinale, Rome, which had been taken up by Guillaume Coustou for the horses of Marly.

Photo gallery

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  The Holy Family Resting - The Flight Into Egypt, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C.
  

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  José Martí, Central Park, New York City
  

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  Fighting Stallions, 1950, aluminum, entrance to Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
  

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  Los Portadores de la Antorcha ("The Torch-bearers"), cast aluminum, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid
  

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  Los Portadores de la Antorcha ("The Torch-bearers"), cast bronze, Discovery Museum and Planetarium, Bridgeport, Connecticut
  

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  Mother Bear and Cubs, at Earthplace, Westport, Connecticut
  

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  Mother Bear and Cubs

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  Don Quixote, aluminum 1947, Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

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  Sybil Ludington, 1961, Lake Carmel, New York

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  Smaller Sybil Ludington statue close-up, Offner museum, Brookgreen Gardens

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  Sculpture of Wolves

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  Cid Campeador, a monument to El Cid unveiled in Buenos Aires in 1935

See also

• Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens, a National Historic Landmark site in South Carolina
• Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts

Sources

• Armstrong, Craven, et al., 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 1976.
• Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, New York, 1968.
• Evans, Cerinda W., Anna Hyatt Huntington, The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1965.
• National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture 1929, National Sculpture Society, New York, 1929.
• Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968.
• Opitz, Glenn B , Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1986.
• Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1990.
• Leary, Joseph, A Shared Landscape: A Guide & History of Connecticut's State Parks & Forests, Friends of Connecticut State Parks Inc., Hartford, CT, 2004.

External links

• Anna Hyatt Huntington at Find a Grave
• Anna Hyatt Huntington Papers at Syracuse University
• Oral history interview with Anna Hyatt-Huntington, (ca. 1964)