Hetty Burlingame Beatty

Hetty Burlingame Beatty (October 8, 1907 – August 20, 1971) was an American sculptor, writer of children's literature and illustrator.

In addition to being a sculptor, Beatty also took up writing and illustrating children’s books.

On October 11, 1959, she married Lewis F. Whitney, another artist.

Beatty once commented to Contemporary Authors, "I started out as a sculptor and gradually shifted over to the field of writing, becoming so absorbed in it that I devote nearly all my time to it now, along with illustration of most of my own books for children.”

Hetty Burlingame Beatty died on August 20, 1971.

Awards Mrs. David Hunt Scholarship in Sculpture Second prize at the International Exhibition of Horses in Sculpture in New York

Authorship

Topsy (1947) Little Wild Horse (1949) Little Owl Indian (1951) Bronto (1952) Saint Francis and the Wolf (1953) Droopy (1954) Thumps (1955) Bucking Horse (1957) Voyage of the Sea Wind (1959) Blitz (1961) Moorland Pony (1961) Trumper (1963) Bryn (1965) Rebel, the Reluctant Racehorse (1968)