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Dreaming with Animals: Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen Gardens
Contributor(s): Dunn, L. Kerr (Author), Wyrick, Monica (Illustrator), Salmon, Robin R. (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 1611178207     ISBN-13: 9781611178203
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Art
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Art - Sculpture
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016058041
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.5" W x 11.2" L (1.10 lbs) 40 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - South Carolina
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 pg. 174 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed
 
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Publisher Description:

Dreaming with Animals is the first children's biography of celebrated sculptor and Brookgreen Gardens cofounder Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her remarkable life serves as an inspiration not only because of the greatness of her art but also because of her courage and perseverance. L. 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. 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. 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. Later, with her husband, Archer Huntington, Anna founded South Carolina sculpture garden and wildlife preserve Brookgreen Gardens, the country's first public sculpture garden and the world's largest collection of figurative sculpture by American artists in an outdoor setting.

This biography provides engaging details of Anna's life, such as her tendency as a child to lie in pastures studying horses; her travels around the country with her husband in a trailer full of monkeys, dogs, and birds; and the couple's purchase of a zoo. In Dreaming with Animals, Dunn has provided us with an affecting portrait of a strong, capable, talented, and innovative woman

Robin R. Salmon, vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, provides a foreword.


Contributor Bio(s): Dunn, L. Kerr: - L. Kerr Dunn is an associate professor in the Center for Academic Excellence and the Writing Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is interested in relationships among art, science, and health, one of the many reasons she became intrigued by the life of Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her published works include a poetry chapbook, Read between the Sheets, and the anthology Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe.Salmon, Robin R.: - Robin R. Salmon is vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens.Wyrick, Monica: - 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.
 
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