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John Hutton (artist)
John Hutton (8 August 1906 – 28 July 1978) was a glass engraving artist from New Zealand, who spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. He is best known for the Great West Screen he created for Coventry Cathedral, which was unveiled in 1962.
Born in Clyde on the South Island of New Zealand in 1906, Hutton was educated at Whanganui Collegiate School. After first studying law he decided to become a painter. Hutton married fellow artist Helen (Nell) Blair in 1934 and they moved to England in 1935. They lived for a while in an artists' commune at Assington Hall in Suffolk. John worked on several mural commissions until World War II broke out in 1939.
During the war Hutton joined the British Army serving in the 21st Army Group Camouflage Pool where he met and worked with the architect Basil Spence – a relationship which was to prove invaluable later on.
In 1947 Hutton designed his first large scale glass engravings – a series of four panels depicting the seasons, for the restaurant area on the passenger ship RMS Caronia, built for the Cunard White Star Line.
In 1950 Hutton was commissioned by Spence to provide murals for his 'Sea and Ships' pavilion that formed part of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Pleased with this collaboration, Spence asked Hutton to consider contributing to his plans for the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed by enemy bombing during the Coventry Blitz in November 1940. A commission Spence won following a 1950 competition, he envisaged that his uncompromisingly modernist new cathedral would be filled with the best of modern British art. Over the following 10 years Hutton would complete what was to become his masterpiece, the engraving of the Great West Screen, unveiled to instant acclaim in 1962.
John and Helen had three children: Warwick Hutton, an artist, Macaillan Hutton, an architect, and Peter Hutton, a teacher.
John had employed an artist's model, Marigold Dodson, to pose for many of the figures in his artwork. His first marriage ended during this period and he married Dodson in 1963, though he still did work with his former wife subsequently on joint art projects. Hutton and Dodson had one daughter, Katie Hutton.
In 1975 he became first Vice President of the newly founded British Guild of Glass Engravers (Laurence Whistler was first President and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was its first Patron).
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John Hutton (artist)
John Hutton (8 August 1906 – 28 July 1978) was a glass engraving artist from New Zealand, who spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. He is best known for the Great West Screen he created for Coventry Cathedral, which was unveiled in 1962.
Born in Clyde on the South Island of New Zealand in 1906, Hutton was educated at Whanganui Collegiate School. After first studying law he decided to become a painter. Hutton married fellow artist Helen (Nell) Blair in 1934 and they moved to England in 1935. They lived for a while in an artists' commune at Assington Hall in Suffolk. John worked on several mural commissions until World War II broke out in 1939.
During the war Hutton joined the British Army serving in the 21st Army Group Camouflage Pool where he met and worked with the architect Basil Spence – a relationship which was to prove invaluable later on.
In 1947 Hutton designed his first large scale glass engravings – a series of four panels depicting the seasons, for the restaurant area on the passenger ship RMS Caronia, built for the Cunard White Star Line.
In 1950 Hutton was commissioned by Spence to provide murals for his 'Sea and Ships' pavilion that formed part of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Pleased with this collaboration, Spence asked Hutton to consider contributing to his plans for the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed by enemy bombing during the Coventry Blitz in November 1940. A commission Spence won following a 1950 competition, he envisaged that his uncompromisingly modernist new cathedral would be filled with the best of modern British art. Over the following 10 years Hutton would complete what was to become his masterpiece, the engraving of the Great West Screen, unveiled to instant acclaim in 1962.
John and Helen had three children: Warwick Hutton, an artist, Macaillan Hutton, an architect, and Peter Hutton, a teacher.
John had employed an artist's model, Marigold Dodson, to pose for many of the figures in his artwork. His first marriage ended during this period and he married Dodson in 1963, though he still did work with his former wife subsequently on joint art projects. Hutton and Dodson had one daughter, Katie Hutton.
In 1975 he became first Vice President of the newly founded British Guild of Glass Engravers (Laurence Whistler was first President and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was its first Patron).