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Lot description
Alfred Hutty (South Carolina 1877-1854) Iron Gate engraving on paper- Plate 6 x 6.5" 11 x 12.5" as framed. A Midwesterner by birth, Alfred Heber Hutty is inextricably linked to Charleston, South Carolina. Upon his first visit to the city in 1919, Hutty famously telegraphed his wife, “Come quickly, have found heaven.” From 1920–1924, Hutty was the first director of the auxiliary art school for the Carolina Art Association (which soon became the Gibbes Museum of Art) and steadily became a vital part of the local cultural community. Hutty was a leader in Charleston's twentieth-century renaissance, using his art to support the burgeoning tourist trade. Having befriended local printmakers, he began producing etchings in 1921, was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club established two years later, and soon garnered national acclaim as a printmaker. Hutty's subject matter was most often the local scene: landscapes, street scenes, and vernacular architecture.