Adda Husted Andersen

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Adda Husted-Andersen
Born Adda Thyra Elise Louise Husted-Andersen
(1898-08-05)August 5, 1898
Trustrup, Lyngby, Denmark
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Other names Andy Husted-Andersen,
Adda Husted Andersen
Alma mater Copenhagen Technical College, Badisch Kunstgewerbeschule
Known for jewelry, metalsmith, educator, enameler

Adda "Andy" Thyra Elise Louise Husted-Andersen (August 5, 1898 – September 13, 1990)[1] was a Danish-born American Modernist jeweler, silversmith, metalsmith, and educator.[2] She was a co-founder and the president of the New York Society of Craftsmen (later called Artist-Craftsmen of New York) from 1941 to 1944.[3][4] She was a master of working with enamel, silver and gold.[5] She was active in New York City and Copenhagen.

Biography

Adda Husted-Andersen was born on August 5, 1898, in Trustrup, Lyngby, Denmark.[4] Husted-Andersen studied at Copenhagen Technical College, under Thyra Vieth (1866–1938) and later at Badisch Kunstgewerbeschule (Baden Applied Arts and Crafts School) in Pforzheim, Germany.[6] In Copenhagen she worked with A. Dragsted.[6] She studied enameling with Jean Dunand.[7]

Husted-Andersen arrived in New York City in 1930, and worked with Georg Jensen enameling homewares.[3]

She naturalized in the United States in 1941.[8] She had a jewelry studio on First Street in New York City for many years, which she opened in 1944.[3] She was a member of the editorial board of Craft Horizons magazine, reviewing the metal crafts.[3]

She taught courses at the Craft Students League (CSL) of New York City.[7][9] Husted-Andersen's students included Glenda Arentzen,[10][11] Walter Rhodes (1896–1968),[12] Ann Orr Morris,[13] Pearl Schecter (1903–1976),[14] Frances Higgins (née Stewart, 1912–2004),[7] Henry Petzal,[15] and others.

In 1975, she became a fellow of the American Craft Council (ACC).[3]

In the 1970s, she retired from work and moved back to Copenhagen.[3] She died on September 13, 1990, in Copenhagen, Denmark.[3] Her work is included in the public museum collections at The Newark Museum of Art,[1] the Baltimore Museum of Art,[16] Archives of American Art,[2][17] among others.

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