Anita Huffington
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Anita Huffington (born December 25, 1934) is an American sculptor who is noted for her stone and bronze representation of the female torso.
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[edit] Biography
Anita came from Baltimore to New York City while in her twenties to study dance under Martha Graham. While living in a sixth floor walkup, she became acquainted with a circle of painters and sculptors, many of whom, such as Franz Kline and Mary Frank were abstract expressionists. Within a few years she gave up dancing, returned to school (at Bennington College, the University of South Florida and City College in New York and then set up her own studio where she began to sculpt in stone.
In the mid seventies, NYC had begun to lose some of its attraction for her and her husband, Hank Sutter, so they traveled across the country looking for a new home, finally purchasing a small, dilapidated cabin near Fayetteville, Arkansas. There she began to flourish as a full-time sculptor. Her stone was usually found around the area that she lived, and she only used hand tools to laboriously discover the figures within.
[edit] Awards and Grants
- 1992 Fellowship awarded in recognition of artistic accomplishment, Arkansas Arts Council.
- 1996 La Napoule Art Foundation Residency, La Napoule, France
- 1997 Jimmy Ernst Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
[edit] References
- Merriam, Dena, A Dialogue with Stone, The Torsos of Anita Huffington, Sculpture Review 1st Quarter 1993, p 6-12.
- Cotter, Holland, Art in Review: Critic's Choice, N.Y. Times, March 22, 1996, p. C27.
- Chen, Mark Daniel, The Figure in 20th Century Art in New York March 15, 1998.
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| NAME | Huffington, Anita |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 25 December 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore, Maryland |
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