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| Author | : L. Kerr Dunn |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2017-10-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1611178215 |
The story of the extraordinary life and art of a renowned female sculptor of realistic animal statues Dreaming with Animals is the first children's biography of celebrated sculptor and Brookgreen Gardens cofounder Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her remarkable life serves as an inspiration not only because of the greatness of her art but also because of her courage and perseverance. L. Kerr Dunn highlights how Anna overcame society's expectations of women and survived a life-threatening illness to become a prolific sculptor and an important benefactor of art and wildlife until her death at age ninety-seven. As a young woman, Anna moved to New York City at a time when American women of her class rarely lived alone or worked outside the home. Although she studied briefly under famous sculptors, she soon felt restless and left art school and began to teach herself to sculpt animals by watching them closely, trying to see the animal's true spirit and then representing that spirit in her work. Over time Anna established herself as an important animalier, an artist specializing in realistic portrayals of animals. By 1915 she was one of only ten American women artists earning enough money from the sales of her art to support herself. Later, with her husband, Archer Huntington, Anna founded South Carolina sculpture garden and wildlife preserve Brookgreen Gardens, the country's first public sculpture garden and the world's largest collection of figurative sculpture by American artists in an outdoor setting. This biography provides engaging details of Anna's life, such as her tendency as a child to lie in pastures studying horses; her travels around the country with her husband in a trailer full of monkeys, dogs, and birds; and the couple's purchase of a zoo. In Dreaming with Animals, Dunn has provided us with an affecting portrait of a strong, capable, talented, and innovative woman Robin R. Salmon, vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, provides a foreword.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780941711654 |
Capturing the majesty of Brookgreen Gardens, this book explores one of the nation's oldest and largest sculpture gardens, where more than 550 works of American figurative sculpture are displayed in landscaped settings. Having expanded to accommodate cultural and historic exhibits that illustrate the distinctive life, history, and natural beauty of the region, the gardens are located on a 10,000-acre nature preserve that stretches from the Waccamaw River to the Atlantic Ocean in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Detailed are how the concept for the gardens originated in the 1920s when philanthropist, author, and collector Archer M. Huntington and his wife, Anna Hyatt, a noted sculptor, purchased three historic plantations, and how over the years the Huntingtons purchased the works of major 19th- and 20th-century sculptors and commissioned settings for the placement of these works. Gardening enthusiasts will discover the legendary beauty and enchanting past of one of America's most celebrated public gardens, which was designated a National Historic Landmark and opened to the public in 1931.
| Author | : ANNE. HIGONNET |
| Publisher | : Miriam and IRA D. Wallach Art Gallery |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Sculpture, American |
| ISBN | : 9781884919312 |
Published on occasion of the exhibition Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936, this exhibition catalogue celbrates the life and work of New York City sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Hyatt Huntington's work is displayed in many of New York's leading institutions and outdoor spaces, including Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the New-York Historical Society, the Hispanic Society, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Central Park, Riverside Park, and the Bronx Zoo. Despite the presence of her sculptures throughout the city, Hyatt Huntington is not well-recognized today. This publication aims to redress that by focusing on her noted New York career, including the first public monument in New York City by a woman: her Joan of Arc on Riverside Drive and 93rd street. Over thirteen feet high, her martial equestrian heroine, clad in armor from head to toe and cast in bronze, was also the city's first public monument to a historical woman. Meanwhile, Hyatt Huntington had become famous for her animal sculptures that combined ferocious spirit with skillful realism, many of which are included in this exhibition catalogue.
| Author | : Dianne L. Durante |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2007-02 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0814719864 |
Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.
| Author | : Allen Staley |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Art |
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| Author | : Hilary Ballon |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-08-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393732436 |
A fresh look at the greatest builder in the history of New York City and one of its most controversial figures. “We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it”: Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save the city from obsolescence, decentralization, and decline. His vast building program aimed to modernize urban infrastructure, expand the public realm with extensive recreational facilities, remove blight, and make the city more livable for the middle class. This book offers a fresh look at the physical transformation of New York during Moses’s nearly forty-year reign over city building from 1934 to 1968.It is hard to imagine that anyone will ever have the same impact on New York as did Robert Moses. In his various roles in city and state government, he reshaped the fabric of the city, and his legacy continues to touch the lives of all New Yorkers. Revered for most of his life, he is now one of the most controversial figures in the city’s history. Robert Moses and the Modern City is the first major publication devoted to him since Robert Caro’s damning 1974 biography, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.In these pages eight short essays by leading scholars of urban history provide a revised perspective; stunning new photographs offer the first visual record of Moses’s far-reaching building program as it stands today; and a comprehensive catalog of his works is illustrated with a wealth of archival records: photographs of buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes, of parks, pools, and playgrounds, of demolished neighborhoods and replacement housing and urban renewal projects, of bridges and highways; renderings of rejected designs and controversial projects that were defeated; and views of spectacular models that have not been seen since Moses made them for promotional purposes.Robert Moses and the Modern City captures research undertaken in the last three decades and will stimulate a new round of debate.
| Author | : Brookgreen Gardens |
| Publisher | : University of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2022-01-02 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781643362670 |
An oasis of art and nature, Brookgreen Gardens is America's first public sculpture garden and largest collection of American figurative sculpture. Founded in 1931 by Archer Milton Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington, its lush South Carolina coastal location is an exquisite setting for the more than two thousand works by four hundred twenty-five artists--including more than one hundred sculptures and other works by Anna Huntington, many placed in the gardens she designed. In 1984, Brookgreen was designated as a National Historic Landmark, highlighting the number of women sculptors whose work is presented in the collection, as well as the significance of the work of Anna Huntington. Today, Brookgreen has become a cultural institution unlike any other, blending sculpture, historic sites, botanical gardens, and the Lowcountry Zoo. As Brookgreen begins its ninetieth year, this volume celebrates the art, nature, and history ensconced in its 9,127 acres. More than one hundred color photographs; an introduction by president and CEO, Page Hayhurst Kiniry; and a foreword by its chairman of the board, Dick Rosen, bring Brookgreen Gardens to life on the page.
| Author | : Mary Atkinson Mitchell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Philanthropists |
| ISBN | : 9780974964409 |
The book offers a unique glimpse into the private lives of millionaire philanthropist, Archer M. Huntington, and renowned sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington. When they married in 1923 nobody thought the marriage would last. They were too different. Archer was 54 and Anna, 47. He was used to luxury, she lived like a bohemian in Greenwich Village, New York City. In 1912 she made $50,000 a year and didn't need money. Finding herself for the first time, looking at a man not as a sculptor's model, but as a person, she knew she had found a special person, and said yes to his persistent proposals. He had been divorced, became bitterly unhappy, and knew he needed her strong, single-minded concern for him. Their mutual love for art brought them together. They eventually made their home of 800 acres in Redding, Connecticut, into a mecca for artists, indigent academics, Spanish emigres, state farm agents needing advice, and a second home for nieces and nephews and their children in Anna's extended family. Their marriage survived major adjustments for each one. But they stuck together, each pursuing his/her own path, he founding supporting museums and she as a sculptor. They grew to need and love each other, learned to give and take, and in the later years, their marriage represented a truly great love story. He died at age 85 and she in 1973, aged 97.
| Author | : Myrna G. Eden |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780810819160 |
Includes a catalog of each artist's work, a discography of Beach's music, photographs of sculptures, and numerous musical examples.
| Author | : Doris E. Cook |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Sculptors |
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