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]
Annie Latham Bartlett | |
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| Born | December 6, 1865 |
| Died | April 21, 1948 (aged 82) |
Early life and education
editShe 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.
Career
editBartlett 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 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c Tenney, Noel. "Annie Latham Bartlett". West Virginia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ "March 9, 1832: Politician George Latham Born in Prince William County". WVPB. 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ a b Eaton, Allen H. (1937). Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands (PDF). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. p. 216. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ Temple, Drew (2022-05-10). "This Week in West Virginia History for Dec. 4-10". The Journal. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ a b Ayers, Ruth (December 4, 1936). "West Virginia Mountain Woman Moulds Models of Her Neighbors". Pittsburgh Press. p. 18. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ Ray, Marcia (2022-01-14). "Collectible ceramics". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ "Index of Women Artists : The Johnson Collection, LLC :: The Johnson Collection, LLC". The Johnson Collection, LLC. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
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