Lot 642

Alfred H. Hutty, St. Michael's Charleston, Etching

Estimate: $700 - $900

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Property from the Collection of John and Virginia Duncan, Savannah, GA

Description:

Alfred Heber Hutty (South Carolina, 1877-1954), Old St. Michael's Charleston, 1928, Etching, pencil signed lower right with snail cypher, depicting a street view of St. Michaels, Charleston, SC, matted and framed, Frame size: 18 3/4 in. x 14 3/4 in.

Note: Catalogue number 80 in the catalogue raisonne of Hutty's prints included in "The Art and Life of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston" by Sara Arnold and Stephen Hoffius, USC Press, 2012.

Alfred Heber Hutty was an American painter and one of the leaders of the Charleston Renaissance. Hutty created impressionist landscapes, detailed drawings and prints of Low Country life. In his lifetime Hutty exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, and the American Watercolor Society. He also painted some murals around Charleston. Hutty’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.

Measurements: Height: of plate 10 1/4 in. x Width: 8 1/2 in.

Condition:

Overall good condition, toning to paper, not viewed out of frame.