Elizabeth Hamilton Huntington

Elizabeth Hamilton Huntington (October 8, 1878 – 1963) was a 20th-century American painter best known for her still life and floral paintings, often executed in pastel on paper.

Early life and education Elizabeth Hamilton Thayer (later Elizabeth Hamilton Huntington) was born in South Braintree, Massachusetts in 1878.

Career During her engagement to her future husband, Raymond, Huntington was diagnosed with polio that paralyzed the right side of her body. In order to continue painting she had to manipulate her non-functional right arm using her left arm. Huntington's husband hand made a desk that could be fit to a car in order for her to paint. The WSA is still in operation today.

Huntington's work was exhibited in the late 2000s and early 2010s both at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts and at the now-defunct Floria Museum for Women Artists in DeLand, Florida. Huntington's work was collected by champions of the unknown, like Samuel M. Robbins of Newton, Massachusetts.

Personal life Huntington married Raymond Edwards Huntington on June 9, 1909 in Wollaston, Massachusetts.

Death and legacy Huntington painted until her death in 1963.

Exhibitions

2009: The Nature of Apples, Fruitlands Museum

Huntington's paintings are featured in several exhibition catalogs/books, including:

Paintings by American Women: Selections from the Collection of Louise and Alan Sellars (1989) Women Artists in the White Mountains, 1940-1940 (1990) Things of Beauty: Floral Still-Lifes: Selected from the Louise and Alan Sellars Collection of Art by American Women (1992)