Gertrude E Spurr Cutts - Artist Info

About Gertrude E Spurr Cutts

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    When Gertrude E. Spurr Cutts arrived in Toronto in 1890 to join her family, she was already an accomplished artist, having traveled to Belgium and Holland to sketch, and having exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists and the Society of Women Artists.

    She was an active presence in the Toronto art scene, opening her own studio and acting as corresponding secretary for the Toronto Art Students' League in 1896. Around 1900, she went to Woodstock, New York for the summer, to study at the Art Students' League of New York under George Bridgman, Birge Harrison, and John F. Carlson.

    Following her marriage to William Cutts, a fellow artist, in 1909, they shared a studio in Toronto and traveled and painted together in South...

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