FRANK TOWNSEND HUTCHENS American (1869-1937)
"A SUMMER LANDSCAPE" Oil on Board Signed lower left
Provenance: Private collection, Ohio
Museums: (8) Butler Institute of American Art; High Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum, West Point, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art; Syracuse University Art Collection; The Toledo Museum of Art; The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Books: (17)
Image Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"
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FRANK TOWNSEND HUTCHENS
Birth place: Canandaigua, NY Death place: Palm Beach, FL Addresses: NYC; Norwalk, CT/Taos, NM Profession: Portrait painter, landscape painter, lecturer
Studied: Art Students League, with Irving Ramsey Wiles, Frank V. DuMond, Mowbray, Geo. de Forest Brush; Academy Julian, Paris with Constant and Jean Paul Laurens, 1895-96; Academy Colarossi, Paris; A. St. Gaudens.
Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1896, 1898; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1896-97, 1906, 1909, 1917; Boston Arts Club, 1899, 1906, 1908; Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery, 1907-32 (5 times); American Watercolor Society; National Academy of Design; Salmagundi Club; Silvermine Artists Guild
Member: National Arts Club; Allied Art Association; American Art Association of Paris; Salmagundi Club; American Watercolor Society; American Federation of Arts; St. Petersburg Art Club; Silvermine Artists Guild.; Taos Society Artists; New Orleans Art Association
Work: Carnegie Library, Sioux Falls, SD; Museum, West Point, NY; Erie (Pa.) Art Club; Herron Art Institute; Toledo Museum of Art; Capitol, Albany; Sioux Falls Art Association; Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Syracuse Museum Fine Arts; High Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Institute; Capitol, Concord, NH; Warren (Pa.) Art Association; New Orleans Museum of Art; Capitol, Tallahassee, FL Sources: WW33; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 359; Falk, Exh. Record Series. This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art", the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Additional Biographical Information:
Born in Canandaigua, New York, Frank Hutchens was a painter of landscape, portraits, and figures noted for his watercolors. He studied with Irving R Wiles and Frank DuMond at the Art Students League and also studied in Paris where he was a member of the Paris Association of American Artists.
Hutchens exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,
D.C., and many other places throughout the U.S. and Europe. Lawrence were active there. Additionally, he and other artists from New York worked together to form the Silvermine Artists Guild, one of the more established arts organizations in
New England. New Orleans Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery. Other affiliations were the American Watercolor Society, Silvermine Artist Guild, and the Salmagundi Club. He painted in Taos, New Mexico during the summers of 1931 and 1932. Museums: Butler Institute of American ArtHigh Museum of Art Milwaukee Art Museum Museum, West Point, NY New Orleans Museum of Art Syracuse University Art Collection The Toledo Museum of Art The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Books:
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson, The Artists Bluebook Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 Benezit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs Southwest Art, The Red Book, Western American Price Index Falk, Peter Hastings, The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago Fink Lois Marie, American Art at the Paris Salons, Nineteenth Century Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1901-1950, National Academy of Design Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Falk, Peter Hastings, Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Falk, Peter Hastings, Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers Dawdy, Doris, Artists of the American West A Biographical Dictionary Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Artists Active 1898-1947 1982 Opitz, Glenn, Dictionary of American Artists Earle, Helen L., Biographical Sketches of American Artists Mallett, Daniel,Trowbridge Index of Artists International Biographical
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