Background
Huntington, Anna Hyatt was born on March 10, 1876 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Alpheus and Audella (Beebe) Hyatt.
Huntington, Anna Hyatt was born on March 10, 1876 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Alpheus and Audella (Beebe) Hyatt.
Educated private school the Misses Smith, Cambridge, Art Students’ League, New York City. Pupil of H.A. McNiel and Gutzon Borglum. Doctor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, 1932.
Works include small bronzes, in over 200 museums and art galleries including Don Quixote, New York City. Stag, Oglesby Park, Wheeling, West Virginia. Don Quixote, also Stallions, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
Stallions, San Marcos, Texas.
Torchbearers statue, Madrid, Spain, 1955. Torch Bearers statue, Havana, Cuba, 1956.
Sybil Ludington statue, Carmel, New York, 1961. Lincoln statue, Worlds Fair, New York City, 1964-1965.
Honorary mention, Paris Salon, 1910.
Recipient many awards and prizes 1910-1940. National Sculpture Society special medal of honor, 1940. Allied Artists gold medal of honor, 1952.
National Academician.
Sorolla medal for art Hispanic Society American, 1957. Humanist Rosicrucian Order, Son Jose, 1960.
Chevalier Legion of Honor (France), 1922. Officer, 1933; Citizen of Blois, France, 1922.
Grand Cross of Alfonso XII (Spain), 1929.
Certificate of Honor for El Cid, San Diego, California, 1933. Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic, 1954. Woman of the Americas, 1958.
Honorary citizen of Cuba, 1958.
Fellow National Sculpture Society (honorary), Internat, Institute Arts Letters, 1957. Member Instituto de Cultura Hispanica, Accademia Culturale Adriatica, International Studia Scientarium Literarumque. Member Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge (correspondent), Federation of Arts, National Institute Arts and Letters, Hispanic Society American (vice president, trustee) American Academy Arts and Letters, Spanish Academy San Fernando (correspondent).
Married Archer M. Huntington, 1923.