Charles W. Hutson was born in McPhersonville, South Carolina in 1840. Hutson gave up a career in law. He taught at the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Texas A & M as well... Read full biography
Charles W. Hutson was born in McPhersonville, South Carolina in 1840. Hutson gave up a career in law. He taught at the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Texas A & M as well as several other schools in the South. In 1909, he retired and moved to New Orleans where he spent... Read full biography
Charles W. Hutson was born in McPhersonville, South Carolina in 1840. Hutson gave up a career in law. He taught at the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Texas A & M as well as several other schools in the South. In 1909, he retired and moved to New Orleans where he spent most of his time painting. Although he was initially instructed by his daughter, Ethel Hutson, artist and secretary to the director of Delgado Museum of Art, Hutson is considered primarily self taught.... Read full biography
Charles W. Hutson was born in McPhersonville, South Carolina in 1840. Hutson gave up a career in law. He taught at the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Texas A & M as well as several other schools in the South. In 1909, he retired and moved to New Orleans where he spent most of his time painting. Although he was initially instructed by his daughter, Ethel Hutson, artist and secretary to the director of Delgado Museum of Art, Hutson is considered primarily self taught. He began sketching in pastel as early as 1905, but it was not until 1908 that he began painting actively. His earliest subjects were pastels of French Quarter buildings, but he eventually turned to nature studies and later to historical and classical... Read full biography
Charles W. Hutson was born in McPhersonville, South Carolina in 1840. Hutson gave up a career in law. He taught at the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Texas A & M as well as several other schools in the South. In 1909, he retired and moved to New Orleans where he spent most of his time painting. Although he was initially instructed by his daughter, Ethel Hutson, artist and secretary to the director of Delgado Museum of Art, Hutson is considered primarily self taught. He began sketching in pastel as early as 1905, but it was not until 1908 that he began painting actively. His earliest subjects were pastels of French Quarter buildings, but he eventually turned to nature studies and later to historical and classical themes. Hutson progressed from pastel to watercolor. Then in 1923, he began pai... Read full biography
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About Charles Hutson: Books
Books & Publications (10)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Charles W. Hutson, A Retrospective
1965
Editor, Isaac Delgado Museum
0 pages (color)
They Taught Themselves
1942
Janis, Sidney
0 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index