Dreaming with Animals: Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen Gardens (Young Palmetto Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611178207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 40 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Salmon is vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens. . 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 University of Dayton and has worked in advertising, as a muralist, and as an art instructor. 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. About the Author L. Kerr Dunn is an associate professor in the Center for Academic Excellence and the Writing Center at the Medical University of South Caro
L. 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 University of Dayton and has worked in advertising, as a muralist, and as an art instructor. Kerr Dunn is an associate pro
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. 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. Dreaming with Animals is the first children’s biography of celebrated sculptor and Brookgreen Gardens cofounder Anna Hyatt Huntington. In Dreaming with Animals, Dunn has provided us with an affecting portrait of a strong, capable, talented, and innovative woman Robin R. 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. Salmon, vic