0Hyatt, Anna Vaughn1876╨1973sculptorBorn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 10, 1876, 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. Gutzon Borglum was among the teachers who aided her. Her first one-woman exhibition of her work was in Boston in 1900, when she showed some 40 characteristic pieces╤animal figures, delicately and accurately modeled and endowed with a spirit almost of life itself. In 1903 the Metropolitan Museum of Art 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 1908 she was in Naples, where she modeled a large lion that was cast in bronze and later placed in Dayton, Ohio. She returned to Paris a year later and in the Salon of 1910 won honorable 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. Other works of note included ╥Diana and the Chase╙ (which won Hyatt a second Saltus Medal from the National Academy of Design in 1922, two years after her first), ╥El Cid Campeador,╙ an equestrian figure erected in Seville in 1927 (for which she was awarded the Grand Cross of Alfonso XII by King Alfonso XIII), ╥Bulls Fighting╙ in 1928, ╥Don Quixote╙ in 1942, ╥Boabdil╙ in 1944, ╥Fighting Stallions,╙ a 17-foot statue cast in aluminum and erected at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1951, figures of JosÄ MartÆ, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Jackson, a fox statue in Lancaster, New Hampshire, and a number of pieces for the grounds of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Among other honors bestowed on her were the Rodin Gold Medal in Philadelphia in 1917, membership in the French Legion of Honor in 1922, and gold medals from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Sculpture Society, and other groups. Her works were in the collections of more than 200 museums and galleries throughout the world. In 1965 she gave a casting of her mounted figure of JosÄ MartÆ to the city of New York, and it was placed on Central Park South at the Avenue of the Americas. From March 1923 she was married to poet and philanthropist Archer M. Huntington. She died in Redding, Connecticut, on October 4, 1973.Photo: Hyatt works on ╥The Torch Bearer,╙ 1954. «styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ ' !I ╔ 5¬ ╩ !I ² 5¬ !I link `
