Oral history interview with Anna Hyatt-Huntington
name: label: Creator
content: Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Names
content: Huntington, Archer M., 1870-1955
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Animal sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Animal sculpture
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Animal sculptor, Bethel, Conn., b. 1876; d. 1973
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 53 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.huntin64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/huntin64.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Anna Hyatt-Huntington conducted circa 1964, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hyatt-Huntington speaks of having no formal art training; studying animals and their anatomy; first piece with her sister; Balchalx Circus; New York at age 24 sculpting and selling pieces; her stays in France and Naples; use of old Daubigny studio; sources of animals for models; New York studio; methods of work; process of enlarging pieces; period of illness; her marriage to Archer Huntington; sculptures, "Joan of Arc," "Don Quixote," "Touch of Arrow," "Lion"; realism in her work; travels in Spain, North Africa; and Thomas W. Lawson, Archer Huntington, and Brookgreen Gardens.