Artist Info
Dorothy Hutton
Dorothy Hutton was a calligrapher and painter. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under F Ernest Jackson.
Dorothy Hutton opened The Three Shields Gallery at 8 Holland Street in 1922, where she showed prints, drawings, watercolours and some tempera paintings, and where she mounted short temporary exhibitions of ceramics, textiles and silverware.
She exhibited throughout Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, on a number of occasions at the Royal Academy. Hutton became renowned for her depiction of flowers. London Transport commissioned a series of seasonal posters to advertise flowers in bloom across the city. Hutton was an official artist to the Crown Office and from 1964 a member of the Art Worker's Guild.
