With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Victoria Huntley
Painting/Drawing
1900 – 1971
- Biography/Description of Work
Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley is best known for her work in the print medium. Born in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey in 1900, she obtained her early art training at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, New York City. Huntley studied at the Art Students League, NYC, with John Sloan, George Luks, and Max Weber, leaving to teach at the College of Industrial Arts in Denton, Texas from 1921-1923. She later took classes from Kenneth Hayes Miller and studied mural painting with William C. Palmer. Precisionistic industrial forms in Huntley’s early works were later replaced by sensitive portrayals of flowers, birds, and landscapes, culminating in the 1940s series of lithographs inspired by the Florida Everglades. Huntley also painted murals for post offices in Springfield, NY and Greenwich, CT, and was the author and illustrator of Portraits of Plants and Places.
- Sources view
- Uconn database, Heller and Heller: North American Women Artists of the 20th century, http://www.newdealartregistry.org/map/OldDaysInGreenwich/GreenwichAvenuePostOffice/Greenwich/CT/, http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Will-mural-set-sail-after-Greenwich-Avenue-post-540375.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Hutson_Huntley
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