Benjamin F. Nutting

Benjamin Franklin Nutting (ca.1803-1887) was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th-century. He taught drawing in local schools, and published do-it-yourself drawing instruction materials. In his lifetime, he participated in numerous art exhibitions.

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Biography

Nutting graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1816.[1]

He began working as an artist in Boston around 1826, painting portraits, and also drawing "on stone for lithographers"[2] such as Pendleton's Lithography (ca.1828-1833);[3][4] Annin & Smith; and B.W. Thayer & Co..[5]

Teaching

He taught drawing at the Chauncy-Hall School;[6] and the Roxbury Latin School (ca.1876).[7] As a teacher and artist, he was associated with the Boston Artists' Association. He also worked as "an artist, drawing teacher and lithographer" for Francis Oakley in Boston, probably in the 1850s-1860s.[8] In 1880, he taught drawing/painting on West Street.[9]

Exhibitions

Nutting showed frequently in art exhibitions during his lifetime. Early in his career, his work appeared at Boston's American Gallery of Fine Arts (1835); and the Boston Art Association (1844)[10] Several of his paintings were displayed in 1851-1852 in the gallery of the New England Art Union.[11] He exhibited 2 oil paintings in the 1847 exhibit of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; and his watercolor "A New England Farm" was included in the association's 1884 exhibit.[12][13] His watercolor "Apple Branch and Jug" was included in the 1880 exhibition of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.;[14] and his watercolor "A New England Kitchen" was exhibited in the Lydian Gallery, Chicago, in 1880.[15] He also showed works at the Boston Art Club (1873, 1875–1876).[16]

Selected publications

Image gallery

References

  1. ^ Henry Fitch Jenks. Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School, established in 1635: with an historical sketch. Boston Latin School Association, 1886; p.155.
  2. ^ William Dunlap. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, new ed., v.3. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1918; p.321.
  3. ^ Leah Lipton. The Boston Artists' Association, 1841-1851. American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 45-57.
  4. ^ G.B. Barnhill. "Lithography and prints." Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Gale, 2000.
  5. ^ Boston Athenaeum.
  6. ^ Thomas Cushing. Teachers and schools--sixty years ago: school life in Dorchester and Boston. American journal of education, v.32, 1882; p.190.
  7. ^ Boston almanac and business directory. 1877.
  8. ^ Peter C. Marzio. Lithography as a Democratic Art: A Reappraisal. Leonardo, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter, 1971); p.45.
  9. ^ Boston Almanac and Business Directory, 1880.
  10. ^ http://siris-artexhibition.si.edu
  11. ^ Catalogue of Paintings Now on Free Exhibition at Our Gallery: Prices including Frames. Bulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852), pp. 10-11.
  12. ^ 5th exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1847. Boston: 1848; p.26.
  13. ^ 15th exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. Boston: Mudge & Son, 1884; p.58.
  14. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibition of works by living American artists, Nov. 9 to Dec. 20, 1880. Boston: Alfred Mudge and son, 1880; p.23.
  15. ^ Art and Artists: Wayside Notes of Wanderings through Studio And Gallery. Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago); 10-20-1881; p.6.
  16. ^ http://siris-artexhibition.si.edu
  17. ^ Massachusetts teacher, Volume 23, no.6, June 1870; p.226.

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