Dreaming with Animals : Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen Gardens Hardback
by L. Kerr Dunn
Illustrated by Monica Wyrick
Part of the Young Palmetto Books series
Hardback
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:40 pages, 19 illustrations
- Publisher:University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2017
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- ISBN:9781611178203
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:40 pages, 19 illustrations
- Publisher:University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781611178203
