HARLEQUINADE BY CLARKE HUTTON

 CIRCA 1940

GREAT CONDITION

IN PERIOD FRAME.

THIS WAS FRAMED IN A GALLERY THAT WAS LOCATED IN NEW ORLEANS

PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE BAYNARD PRESS FOR SCHOOL PRINTS LTD, LONDON

ABOUT:

Clarke Hutton (1898-1984) Medium Lithograph FOR  The School Prints

Date of Work 1940s Signed Signed in plate, Height  20.5" and Width 31". 

Clarke Hutton was born in Stoke Newington, London, on 14 November 1898, son of Harold Clarke Hutton, a solicitor, and his wife Ethel, née Clark.In 1916 he became assistant stage designer at the Empire Theater. About a decade later he took a trip to Italy, which inspired him to become a fine artist. In 1927 he joined A. S. Hartrick's lithography class at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, after Hartrick retired he taught the class himself until 1968.

He experimented with the technique of auto lithography with the aim of developing a way of printing affordable full-colour children's books, and worked with Noel Carrington at Penguin Books to develop the Picture Puffin imprint. He used the same technique on Oxford University Press' Picture History series. He illustrated about 50 books in all, for publishers in the UK and USA.His paintings, figures and landscapes, were widely exhibited. His later work took on a surrealist influence. He died in Westminster in the second quarter of 1984.