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Victoria Hutson Huntley
Born1900
Died1971
SpouseRalph Huntley

Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley (1900 Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey - 1971 Arlington, Virginia) was an American artist, and printmaker.[1]

Life

She grew up in New York City. She studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Art Students League of New York.[2] She studied under John Sloan, Max Weber, and Kenneth Hayes Miller and was awarded First Prize in Lithography in the International Graphic ArtShow at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1933 her lithograph, Koppers Coke, was awarded First Prize in Lithography in the National Exhibition of the Philadelphia Print Club.[citation needed]

She married a physicist, Ralph Huntley.[3] She taught at the Birch Wathen Lenox School, from 1934 to 1942. Later in the 1940s she was Resident Artist at the Pomfret School in Connecticut. In 1939, she painted a mural, The Packet Sails from Greenwich, at the post office in Greenwich, Connecticut, and another, Fiddler's Green, in Springville, New York as part of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.[4][5][6]

Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art.[7] In 1942 she was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

Her work is represented in the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Victoria Hutson Huntley / American Art". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Victoria Hutson Huntley". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Winter Park History". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Will mural set sail after Greenwich Avenue post office sale?". GreenwichTime. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Greenwich CT". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Victoria Hutson Huntley". The New Deal Art Registry. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  7. ^ Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Victoria Hutson Huntley papers, 1929-1999 - Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  8. ^ Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.