A bronze sculpture of two swans facing one another.

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Two Swans

Artist Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (American, 1876 - 1973)

Date1934

MediumBronze

Dimensions11 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 12 inches (29.2 × 52.1 × 30.5 cm)

MarkingsFoundry mark on the back side of the base behind the male swan: "E. GARGANI. F.DRY."

Credit LineGift of the artist and her husband, Archer M. Huntington.

Object number1937.12

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Copyright© 1934 Estate of Anna Hyatt Huntington. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextAnna Hyatt Huntington was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 10, 1876. She first studied in Boston, and later went on to study briefly at the Art Students League in New York City. The daughter of Alpheus Hyatt, a Harvard professor and curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, Huntington’s preference for sculpting animals is evident throughout her long career, as well as in the Telfair’s Two Swans. By the 1920s, Huntington had achieved international fame as an artist who combined naturalism and sympathetic expression in her sculptures. In 1936, the artist and her husband, poet Archer M. Huntington, founded Brookgreen Gardens, a 6,500-acre outdoor sculpture museum near Charleston, South Carolina.

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