Benjamin F. Nutting
American artist (c.1803–1887)
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Benjamin Franklin Nutting (c. 1803 – 1887) was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He taught drawing in local schools, published do-it-yourself drawing instruction materials, and showed his artwork in several exhibitions.
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]
He taught drawing at the Chauncy-Hall School;[6] and the Roxbury Latin School (c. 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]
Nutting showed frequently in art exhibitions. 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).[10]
Further reading
- Works by Nutting
- Initiatory Drawing Cards. Boston: M.J. Whipple. 1848.
- View in New England: Series of Drawings from Nature, by various artists. Boston. 1849–1852.
- Pioneer Drawing Cards. Boston: Higgins & Bradley. 1856.
- Self-Instructing Drawing Lessons. Boston: John D. Brooks. ("This little book contains a series of sketches admirably arranged to aid the young pupil in acquiring the rudiments of the art of drawing, even without a teacher.")[16]
- Works about Nutting
- John Keep Nutting. Nutting genealogy: A record of some of the descendants of John Nutting, of Groton, Mass. Syracuse, NY: C. W. Bardeen, 1908.
- Jourdan Moore Houston. "M. J. Whipple's New England Scenery From Nature Series: A Yearbook of Tappan & Bradford Artists, 1849-1852." Imprint. Vol. 27, no. 2 (Autumn 2002), 27–44.
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