Hetty Burlingame Beatty (October 8, 1907 – August 20, 1971) was an American

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, writer of children's literature and

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Biography

Beatty was born in

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. From 1924 until 1929 she attended the Boston Museum School. She trained as a sculptor. Frederick W. Allen was the daily instructor at that time with Charles Grafly coming up from Philadelphia twice a month to give criticisms as head of the Sculpture Department. Her works were exhibited nationally and won a number of awards. A one-woman show of her sculpture and drawings was held at the

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in 1941. She also had shows at:

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, Knoedler Gallery-

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, MacBeth Gallery-New York,

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. In addition to being a sculptor, Beatty also took up writing and illustrating children’s books. On October 11, 1959, she married Lewis F. Whitney, another artist. Beatty once commented to ''Contemporary Authors'', "I started out as a sculptor and gradually shifted over to the field of writing, becoming so absorbed in it that I devote nearly all my time to it now, along with illustration of most of my own books for children.”Gale Literary Databases. "Hetty Burlingame Beatty." Contemporary Authors. 28 October 2003. 30 June 2005 Hetty Burlingame Beatty died on August 20, 1971.

Awards

* Mrs. David Hunt Scholarship in Sculpture * Second prize at the International Exhibition of Horses in Sculpture in New York

Authorship

*''Topsy'' (1947) *''Little Wild Horse'' (1949) *''Little Owl Indian'' (1951) *''Bronto'' (1952) *''Saint Francis and the Wolf'' (1953) *''Droopy'' (1954) *''Thumps'' (1955) *''Bucking Horse'' (1957) *''Voyage of the Sea Wind'' (1959) *''Blitz'' (1961) *''Moorland Pony'' (1961) *''Trumper'' (1963) *''Bryn'' (1965) *''Rebel, the Reluctant Racehorse'' (1968)

References

External links

Guide to the Hetty Burlingame Beatty papers at the University of Oregon
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beatty, Hetty Burlingame 1907 births 1971 deaths American children's writers American women illustrators American illustrators 20th-century American sculptors People from New Canaan, Connecticut 20th-century American women artists