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20th Century Painting

Portrait of Anna Vaughn Hyatt
1915
20th Century
65 1/8 in. x 40 3/16 in. (165.42 cm x 102.08 cm)


Marion Boyd Allen (aka Mrs. William A. Allen)
(Boston, MA, 10/23/1862 - 12/28/1941)
Primary


Medium and Support: Oil on Canvas
Credit Line: Purchase made possible by the Randolph-Macon Art Association, 1922
Accession Number: M.1922.1


Bibliography: Object bibliography:
An American Perspective: Paintings from the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1985, no. 1.

Art and Archaeology vol. XXVI (September 1928): 74.

Curl, M. J. "Boston Artists and Sculptors Talk of Their Work and Ideals: XXV Marion Boyd Allen,"  Boston N. E. Art Archives, May 27, 1921.

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills. New York: Bedford Books, 1998, p. 356.

Fairbrother, Trevor J. The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986, p. 110.

Heimann, Nora and Laura Coyle. Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2006, p. 68.

Hill, May Brawley. The Woman Sculptor: Malvina Hoffman and Her Contemporaries. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1984, p. 17.

Hirshler, Erica E. A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2001, cover and plate 59.

International Exhibitions Foundation for The National Museum of Women in the Arts. American Women Artists, 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987, plate 21.

International Studio vol. LVII (Nov 1915): 100.

National Sculpture Society. Anna Hyatt Huntington (American Sculptor Series, No. 3). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1947, p. 4.

Mitchell, Mary and Albert Goodrich. The Remarkable Huntingtons: Chronicle of a Marriage. Newtown, CT: Budd Drive Press, 2004, p. 16.

San Diego Museum of Art.  American Women Artists, 1830-1930. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 1987.

Schall, Ellen M., John Wilmerding and David M. Sokol.  American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting.  Lynchburg, VA: Maier Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 46-47.

Sokol, David M.  "American Art in the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia,"  Antiques vol. 136, no. 5 (1989): 1145.

Williams, Mary Frances. Catalogue of the Collection of American Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977, p. 37.

Artist Bibliography:
Fairbrother, Trevor J. et al. The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1940. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986.

Hirshler, Erica E. A Studio of Her Own: Women Artist in Boston, 1870-1940. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2001.

Mitchell, Mary and Albert Goodrich. The Remarkable Huntingtons: Chronicle of a Marriage. Newtown, CT: Budd Drive Press, 2004.

Tufts, Eleanor. American Women Artists 1830-1930. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987

Commentary: The portrait depicts sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington working on a clay model of her famous monument to Joan of Arc. The finished bronze still stands in Riverside Park in New York. The portrait was painted in her Cape Ann, Massachusetts, studio, and predated her marriage to Archer M. Huntington. The sculptor was on campus at R-MWC in 1922 as a visiting artist.

The sculptor and her husband, railroad heir Archer M. Huntington, founded Brookgreen Gardens, the nation's largest outdoor sculpture park, in South Carolina, and were significant collectors of American figurative sculpture. Archer Huntington, a student of Spanish culture, had founded the Hispanic Society of America in 1904 and was a respected translator of "The Poem of the Cid," a classic medieval Spanish poem.  Anna Huntington created a number of sculptures depicting figures from Spanish history and culture for the Hispanic Society's building in New York, where they can still be seen.



Exhibition: Copley Gallery, Boston, November 18-30, 1918.

"Paintings: American Artists," 11th Annual Exhibition, R-MWC, April 1-18, 1922.

Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, March 26, 1930.

"An American Perspective,"  North Carolina Museum of Art, December 14, 1985-January 26, 1986.

"The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Denver Art Museum, June 11, 1986-Jan 18, 1987.

"American Women Artists, 1830-1930," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; San Diego Museum of Art; Meadows Museum, Dallas, April 18, 1987-April 17, 1988.

"American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 25-March 4, 1990; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, March 17-April 29, 1990; Tampa Museum of Art, May 14-July 8, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 24, 1992-January 17, 1993; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 24-July 11, 1993.

"A Studio of Her Own: Boston Women Artists," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 15-December 2, 2001.

Provenance: R-MWC Art Collection. Purchase, 1922.

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