Hyatt Huntington exhibited often, traveled widely, received critical acclaim at home and abroad, and won multiple awards and commissions.

During the first two decades of the 20th century, Hyatt Huntington became famous for her animal sculptures, which combine vivid emotional depth with skillful realism.

She was the daughter of the artist Audella Beebe and Alpheus Hyatt, a professor of paleontology and zoology at Harvard University and MIT.

Anna Hyatt first studied with Henry Hudson Kitson in Boston, who threw her out after she identified equine anatomical deficiencies in his work (Rubenstein 1990).

[full citation needed] Later, she studied with Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Gutzon Borglum at the Art Students League of New York.

Because of her husband's enormous wealth and the shared interests of the couple, the Huntingtons founded fourteen museums and four wildlife preserves.

[6] Anna Hyatt Huntington's papers are held at Syracuse University,[7] and the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.

[8] The Metropolitan Museum of Art ranks Huntington as among the foremost woman sculptors in the United States to have undertaken large, publicly commissioned works, alongside Malvina Hoffman and Evelyn Beatrice Longman.

[10] Anna Hyatt Huntington's animal sculptures, figures both life-sized and in smaller proportions, are held in museums and collections throughout the United States.

Her work is displayed in many of New York's leading institutions and outdoor spaces, including Columbia University, Stevens Institute of Technology, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the New-York Historical Society, the Hispanic Society of America, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Central Park, Riverside Park and the Bronx Zoo.

[2] She spent two years collaborating with Abastenia St. Leger Eberle to produce Man and Bull, which was exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.

The sculpture at the Mark Twain Library, also called The Torch Bearers, is identical in form to the one in Madrid, but is cast in bronze and appears to be smaller.

The sculpture was initiated by a letter from a sixth-grade class at Rice Elementary School in Lancaster, South Carolina, asking Mrs. Huntington if she would sculpt a statue of young Andrew Jackson for the state park.

South Carolina school children responded by donating their nickels and dimes to raise the necessary funds for a massive base to support the statue, which looks out over the large expanse of lawn at the park.

Two of the copies were scale model casts made for public display, with first one shown outside the Illinois State pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

[26] This Lincoln statue stood on the grounds of Huntington's Stannerigg estate outside Bethel until her passing in 1973 and was bequeathed, along with several other pieces, to Syracuse University.