WILLIAM OLIPHANT HUTCHISON PRSA RP (SCOTTISH 1889 - 1970), YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPE

oil on canvas board framed image size 23cm x 30cm, overall size 38cm x 45cm Handwritten label verso Provenance: the family of the artist. Note: Hutchison attended The Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912. On leaving he started The Edinburgh Group, holding exhibitions for three consecutive years, with Eric Robertson, Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith, Dorothy Johnstone, Mary Newbery, and David Macbeth Sutherland who later became Principal at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Hutchison also worked and studied in Paris for a while, mainly painting portraits though also producing landscape and figure paintings. In 1918 he married Marjery, youngest daughter of Edward Arthur Walton. Hutchison was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943, from all accounts being an excellent director. Though a great traditionalist he encouraged those who tended to the avant-garde. On leaving the Glasgow School of Art, Hutchison carried on with portraiture both in Edinburgh and London. A large exhibition of his work was held in London in 1964. Public collections include: The Hunterian, The National Portrait Gallery, Glasgow Museums, The National Galleries Of Scotland, UK Parliamentary Art Collection, The Fleming Collection, The BBC, National Trust Scotland, Glasgow School of Art, and the museums of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee, Kirkcaldy, Paisley & Fife.