Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Anna Hyatt Huntington became one of America's foremost animal sculptors, known for her wild and domestic animal sculpture as well as heroic monuments.

She was early influenced by her father's work as a paleontologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and by her mother's illustrations of her father's work. She had a special interest in horses and was also a frequent visitor to the Bronx Zoo in New York.

With her older sister Harriet, Anna became a student in Boston of Henry Hudson Kitson, and her first exhibit when she was age twenty-four included forty pieces, which was quite unusual for an artist so young.

She also studied in New York with Hermon Atkins MacNe...