Dreaming with Animals: Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen Gardens (Young Palmetto Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611178207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 40 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The illustrator of Crabbing: A Lowcountry Family Tradition, published by the University of South Carolina Press, Wyrick and her husband live in South Carolina and have three grown children.Robin R. She is interested in relationships among art, science, and health, one of the many reasons she became intrigued by the life of Anna Hyatt Huntington. Salmon is vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen
About the Author L. Salmon is vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens. . The illustrator of Crabbing: A Lowcountry Family Tradition, published by the University of South Carolina Press, Wyrick and her husband live in South Carolina and have three grown children.Robin R. Kerr Dunn is an associate professor in the Center for Academic Excellence and the Writing Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is interested in relationships among art, science, and health, one of the many reasons she became intrigued by the life of Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her published works include a poetry chapbook, Read between the Sheets, and the anthology Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe.Monica Wyrick has a fine arts degree from the Univer
Salmon, vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, provides a foreword.. By 1915 she was one of only ten American women artists earning enough money from the sales of her art to support herself. L. Over time Anna established herself as an important animalier, an artist specializing in realistic portrayals of animals. 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. 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. In Dreaming with Animals, Dunn has provided us with an affecting portrait of a strong, capable, talented,