Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley (1900 Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey – 1971

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) was an American artist, and printmaker.

Life

Huntley grew up in New York City, and studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the

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. She studied under

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, and Kenneth Hayes Miller and was awarded First Prize in Lithography in the International Graphic Art Show at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1933 her lithograph, ''Koppers Coke'', was awarded First Prize in Lithography in the National Exhibition of the Philadelphia Print Club. She married a physicist, Ralph Huntley. She taught at the Birch Wathen Lenox School, from 1934 to 1942. Later in the 1940s she was Resident Artist at the Pomfret School in Connecticut. In 1939, she painted a mural, ''The Packet Sails from Greenwich'', at the post office in

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, and another, ''Fiddler's Green'', in

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as part of the

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. Her papers are held at the

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. In 1942 she was elected into the

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as an Associate Academician. Her work is represented in the

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, the

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, The

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, the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the

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, and the

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, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.

References

External links

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American Women at Work: Women Printmakers and the Federal Art ProjectVictoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley on Askart
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huntley, Victoria Hutson 1900 births 1971 deaths 20th-century American painters American muralists American women printmakers People of the New Deal arts projects People from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey Painters from New Jersey Painters from New York City Art Students League of New York alumni National Academy of Design associates American women muralists 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American women painters