Correspondence between Clara Huntington, Henry Huntington's oldest daughter, and George D. Hapgood, Henry Huntington's personal secretary, regarding her life as a struggling artist.

Clara Huntington was born in Oneonta, New York on February 2, 1878. Huntington was the daughter of Henry E. Huntington and Mary Alice Prentiss. After Clara's divorce from Gilbert Perkins in 1915, she decided to pursue a career in art. Her studies began in San Francisco, California in the 1890s. In the 1920s and 1930s, she studied sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute, under Leo Lentelli in New York, and under Italy's official state sculptor Arturo Dazzi. She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and San Francisco Society of Women Artists. Her works include a bust of Henry E. Huntington, a statue of St. Francis, and a bas-relief entitled The Three Graces at Marlborough School in Los Angeles, California. George D. Hapgood was Henry E. Huntington's private secretary.

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