{"id":284,"date":"2020-09-03T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/?p=284"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:27:51","slug":"anna-vaughn-hyatt-huntington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/2020\/09\/03\/anna-vaughn-hyatt-huntington\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/nggallery\/central-to-their-lives\/HuntingtonAnna_YawningTiger-TIF.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although she received little formal art instruction, Anna Hyatt Huntington emerged as one of the most accomplished sculptors of the era and established the nation\u2019s first public sculpture park at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. The Bronx Zoo\u2019s jaguars, tigers, and lions served as a catalyst for Huntington\u2019s work for decades, and her careful study of powerful feline anatomy found repeated expression, as evidenced by <em>Yawning Tiger<\/em>. Modeled in 1917<em>, <\/em>this popular subject was created in two sizes, this example being the larger version. The languorous, sinewy cat\u2014portrayed on its stomach in mid-stretch with tail lifted\u2014is yawning broadly. Here, Huntington conveys the animal\u2019s spirit with minimal detail, a trademark of her oeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although she received little formal art instruction, Anna Hyatt Huntington emerged as one of the most accomplished sculptors of the era and established the nation\u2019s first public sculpture park at &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}