Annie Latham Bartlett | |
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Born | December 6, 1865 |
Died | April 21, 1948 | (aged 82)
Annie Virginia Latham Bartlett (December 6, 1865 – April 21, 1948) was an American sculptor from West Virginia whose works were exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939. [1]
She was born in 1865 to General George R. Latham and Caroline A. Thayer Latham. [1] [2] Her father was a Congressman and later the U.S. consul to Australia. [1] She married Leonidas Bartlett in 1885. She attended the Maryland Institute at Baltimore in 1922 to study the fine arts.
Bartlett took up sculpting after her schooling. She developed a process which hardened local clays without firing them, mixing them with her own ingredients. [3] She would then paint and varnish her works so that they would resemble colored porcelain. [3] Many of her subjects were traditional busts, in addition to figures which related to West Virginia's culture and history. [4] She would also make figurines of some of her neighbors. [5] These neighbor portraits, with names like "Schoolma'am" and "Madonna of the Mountains" were featured in an exhibit at the International Institute in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1936. [5] Her work and similar have been described as "Southern Highland Potteries" after Allen H. Eaton's book Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands which described works by Bartlett and others. [6]
Her work is held in The Johnston Collection in Spartanburg, South Carolina. [7]
Annie Latham Bartlett | |
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Born | December 6, 1865 |
Died | April 21, 1948 | (aged 82)
Annie Virginia Latham Bartlett (December 6, 1865 – April 21, 1948) was an American sculptor from West Virginia whose works were exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939. [1]
She was born in 1865 to General George R. Latham and Caroline A. Thayer Latham. [1] [2] Her father was a Congressman and later the U.S. consul to Australia. [1] She married Leonidas Bartlett in 1885. She attended the Maryland Institute at Baltimore in 1922 to study the fine arts.
Bartlett took up sculpting after her schooling. She developed a process which hardened local clays without firing them, mixing them with her own ingredients. [3] She would then paint and varnish her works so that they would resemble colored porcelain. [3] Many of her subjects were traditional busts, in addition to figures which related to West Virginia's culture and history. [4] She would also make figurines of some of her neighbors. [5] These neighbor portraits, with names like "Schoolma'am" and "Madonna of the Mountains" were featured in an exhibit at the International Institute in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1936. [5] Her work and similar have been described as "Southern Highland Potteries" after Allen H. Eaton's book Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands which described works by Bartlett and others. [6]
Her work is held in The Johnston Collection in Spartanburg, South Carolina. [7]