Dorothy Hutton, 1889-1984

• Biography

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  Biography	Dorothy Hutton was a calligrapher, printmaker and painter born in Bolton in 1889. She opened the Three Shields Gallery at 8 Holland Street, Kensington, where she showed prints, drawings and paintings and mounted short exhibitions of ceramics, textiles and silverware. Hutton studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1920s under F Ernest Jackson. Hutton was particularly renowned as a painter of flowers, using these skills to good effect in several posters commissioned by the Underground Group and London Transport. She exhibited throughout Britain between 1914 and 1940, including many times at the Royal Academy. Hutton was an official artist to the Crown Office and, from 1964, was a member of the Art Workers' Guild. She lived in London. George Edward Kruger Gray did the borders for some of Hutton's 1920s posters for the Underground Group.
  Education	Central School of Arts and Crafts, Circa 1927
  Employment	Designed posters for the Underground Group and London Transport, 1922-1954
  Role	Artist,