Charlotte Fowler- Anna Hyatt Huntington

     After our trip to the Anna Hyatt Huntington Exhibit in the Torggler I was captivated by Hyatt Huntington’s style. I was eager to learn more about her character as a person and the experience’s that shaped her and her art work. I did my research to learn more about her life and spent a few minutes in reflection, admiring nature from her lens based on her experiences I read about. It seems that Hyatt Huntington had always had a love for nature and animals and her passion was encouraged significantly by her father, a zoologist and paleantologist. She spent many hours examining animals’ anatomy and analyzing their behaviors. She studied every movement of these animals and reflected these behaviors in her sculptures. Some behaviors less majestic looking than others, she found beauty in every one. She had always loved to work with her hands. As a teen, she was a violinist. Eventually she got bored of that and picked up sculpting in her early 20s creating masterpieces of all sizes and worked into her 90s. She turned her home onto her own gallery as she filled her gardens with animal figures. Her home is now open as a museum in Georgetown County, South Carolina. I hope to find the time to visit it one day to appreciate and admire her work in a the setting where Hyatt Huntington found her inspiration. She was very particular and detailed in her work as most pieces took a few models before the final composition was created. Most her work featured horses as she loved them most of all. 


    Hyatt Huntington expresses her relationship to nature through her sculptures. It is evident the amount of time she had spent just immersing herself into natural setting surrounded by animals to be able to create such realistic images of the animals organic behaviors. Some, including herself, have called her even obsessed with animals In class we talked a lot about the meaning of words and things based on experience. Hyatt Huntington’s father was a zoologist who passed his passion for animals down to her daughter. With so much time spent dedicated to animals with her father, Hyatt Huntington was able to develop a unique relationship with each individual species of animals that the average person may not have. The value of animals increased with each new fact she learned. Because of her work I have found a new appreciation for wild animals and wonder for the world around me.

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