HYATT, ANNA VAUGHN

born March 10, 1876, Cambridge, Mass., U.S. died Oct. 4, 1973, Redding, Conn. married name Anna Hyatt Huntington American sculptor who brought great subtlety and vividness to her equestrian and other animal subjects. Anna Hyatt was the daughter of noted Harvard paleontologist Alpheus Hyatt. She was educated privately and began her study of sculpture with Henry H. Kitson in Boston. She later attended the Art Students' League in New York City for a time. Her first one-woman exhibition was in Boston in 1900, when she showed some 40 characteristic piecesanimal figures, delicately and accurately modeled and endowed with a lifelike spirit. In 1903 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, made its first of many acquisitions of her sculptures. In 1907 she traveled to France. For a year she occupied a studio in Auvers-sur-Oise and executed, among other works, a large jaguar that was shown in the Paris Salon exhibition of 1907. In the Salon of 1910 she won honourable mention for her equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, replicas of which were erected in New York City in 1915 and subsequently in several other cities. Her other works of note include Diana and the Chase; El Cid Campeador, an equestrian figure erected in Seville in 1927; Don Quixote in 1942; Fighting Stallions, a 17-foot (5-metre) statue cast in aluminum and erected at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1951; figures of Jos Mart, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Jackson; and a number of pieces for the grounds of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Among other honours bestowed on her were membership in the French Legion of Honor in 1922 and a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her works were in the collections of more than 200 museums and galleries throughout the world. From March 1923 she was married to poet and philanthropist Archer M. Huntington.