Discipline: Visual Art

Henrietta Mantooth

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990
More: www.henriettamantooth.com
Henrietta Mantooth is an American painter, designer, and performer. She has spent 20 years in Latin America incorporating Latin themes into her paintings. She worked in theater for many years as designer and performer in Off-Broadway and Broadway theaters and universities, often with dancers, poets, actors, and musicians. She is now collaborating on a small theater piece on the life and prophecies of Nostradamus and one based on the life of her mother.

Studios

Cheney

Henrietta Mantooth worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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