Huger Elliott
American, 1877 -1948
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Huger Elliott was an American architect and artist.
Son of John Barnwell Elliott of New Orleans and the former Lucy Huger of Charleston, S. C, Elliott was a graduate of Columbia University's school of architecture and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
In 1911, he married artist Elizabeth Shippen Green and made several moves with her, to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York, as well as back to Philadelphia, where they built a home near Cogslea.
He was an instructor in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, later acting as director of the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1912 to 1920 he was supervisor of educational work and director of the department of design at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. For the next five years, he served as president of the Pennsylvania museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia. He was the Director of educational work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Nork from 1925 to 1941, when he retired.
Elliott and his wife collaborated on an abecedarius, for which he composed nonsense verses and she created fanciful illustrations. Friends observed that each of the couple possessed a lively, witty sense of humor and love of wordplay.