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Anna Hyatt Huntington
Tigers Watching
c. 1905
Bronze
Signed left side of base: Anna V. Hyatt
Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., #5



7 1/4 | 18.4
13 | 33
6 3/4 | 17.1

Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1906 (06.303)

"Characteristic of Anna Hyatt Huntington’s early sculpture, Tigers Watching displays her ability to combine anatomical accuracy with fluidity of form. Rendered with delicacy, the diminutive animal group reveals Huntington’s interest in materiality, as the rough base contrasts with the animals’ refined forms—the smooth curves of the tigers’ spines in opposition to the rocky outcrop on which the animals lie. Tigers Watching was among the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s earliest acquisitions of sculpture by younger living artists. Tigers Watching was also included in the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco."  –DRF

Read more: By Daria Rose Foner

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