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Dark Room
Artist
Mary Huntoon
(United States, 1896 - 1970)
Dateca. 1935
MediumDrypoint on paper
DimensionsSHEET: 7 x 8 3/4 in. (177.8 x 222.2 mm)
Object TypePrints
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
Object number1939.18
On View
Not on viewMary Huntoon’s figure bends over trays of chemicals once commonly used to produce photographs. In addition to studying photography in the Department of Art, students at Kansas State University can take courses in photojournalism in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson and former White House photographer Pete Souza got their career starts at K-State.
Huntoon was inspired to become an artist by a journalist, her stepfather Harvey Parsons, a cartoonist and newspaper columnist in Topeka. After studying art and traveling extensively, Huntoon developed art therapy programs at the Menninger Foundation and Winter Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Topeka. She published the book The Creative Arts as Therapy in 1949.
Huntoon was inspired to become an artist by a journalist, her stepfather Harvey Parsons, a cartoonist and newspaper columnist in Topeka. After studying art and traveling extensively, Huntoon developed art therapy programs at the Menninger Foundation and Winter Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Topeka. She published the book The Creative Arts as Therapy in 1949.
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