The Three Artists, Mary Huntoon

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Mary Huntoon, The Three Artists
Mary Huntoon, The Three Artists
Mary Huntoon
The Three Artists
1934
Mary Huntoon
1896–1970
The Three Artists, 1934
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: engraving; laid paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 163 x 210 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 222 x 285 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 1995.0060
Not on display
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Label texts

Archive Label 2003 (version 1): Huntoon employs several devices of portraiture in this work. The Three Artists includes both a self-portrait and portraits of two other artists, Fern Cooper and Avis Chitwood. Huntoon’s print is not so much a study in physical features as it is a portrait of the individuals as artists, for while she depicts herself and the other two artists from the back and side, she shows each of them at work, sketching. Archive Label 2003 (version 2): Mary Huntoon was introduced to printmaking in 1923 while studying at the Art Students League in New York. She excelled immediately and held her first two New York exhibitions that same year. After several years spent in Paris, France, Huntoon returned to Topeka to teach printmaking at Washburn College. She played an important role in the Kansas Works Progress Administration and was a pioneer in the field of art therapy.

Exhibitions

Mary Huntoon: Artist and Art Therapist
Jacinta Johnson, curator
Letha Johnson, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2021
Brosseau Center for Learning: Mary Huntoon
2018
Thoroughly Modern: The "New Women" Art Students of Robert Henri
2005
A Century of Kansas Printmakers
Edward Barr, curator
Stephen Goddard, curator
1998

Citations

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas. The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art, 1995 & 1996 7, no. 1-2 (1998):

Wardle, Marian, editor American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri 1910-1945. Canada: Brigham Young University Musuem of Art in association with Rutgers University Press, 2005.