Joan Hutt
| Joan Hutt | |
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Joan Hutt, c. 1950
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| Born |
16 September 1913 Aspenden, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 19 January 1985 (aged 71) Llandudno, Conwy, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Camberwell College of Arts, Clapham School of Art |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Expressionism |
Joan Hutt (1913–1985) was a British artist who spent most of her career in North Wales.
Joan Hutt was born on 16 September 1913 in Aspenden, Hertfordshire, England Her father, John Hutt MBE, was posted with the Ministry of Food in Malta at that time, but had sent his wife back to England to give birth. Mother and child duly returned to Malta. At the outbreak of the First World War, the whole family returned to the UK.
Her father's family, the Hutts, were originally of French Huguenot extraction. Notable ascendants included John Hutt (1746–1794), Royal Navy Flag-captain (buried in Westminster Abbey), John Hutt (1795–1880), Governor of Western Australia from 1839 to 1846, and Sir William Hutt (1801–1882), a British Liberal Politician who was heavily involved in the colonization of New Zealand and Southern Australia.
Hutt was educated privately and then at Sutton High School (London), where she excelled in drawing. She then studied fine art at the Camberwell College of Art and then at the Clapham School of Art.
Hutt spent her early years painting in Paris, followed by two years in Frankfurt
Hutt returned to Britain, obtaining a position at the Bank of England in the 1930s. From 1935, she regularly exhibited her paintings at the Bank of England Arts Society. It was said at her first exhibition: "Easily the most sensational work in the show was that of its youngest contributor, Miss Joan Hutt, who is only 19.. her fine study...entitled 'Trees' should place her in the front rank...". In 1936, she was awarded first prize in oil painting at the Bank of England Arts Exhibition for her painting "Still Life" whose "emphatic rhythmic properties are conveyed with buoyant verve" and a "work in which form, colour and texture combine in a robust effect – with a hint of Chirico in the choice of material" In 1938, she again received first prize for her work "Girl in a Chair" In the same exhibition, her painting "Winter Landscape" was described as "a quite extraordinary picture – across this chilly canvas faint spirits move against a bleak background of variegated blue"
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