Title: Trees Against The Sky

Artist: Alfred Heber Hutty

Media: etching and dry-point engraving on paper

Measurements: Paper: 13" by 12", Image: 10" by 8"

Condition: The image and paper are in very good to excellent condition.

Provenance: The current owner purchased the engraving through a private acquisition. More information is available upon request.

Comments: Trees Against the Sky by Alfred Heber Hutty, a renowned artist and engraver, has a wonderful sepia color and tone and has a gentle, graceful design throughout the composition. It is signed in pencil by hand in the lower-right corner, with his "symbol" and has a label verso that states that this original etching was sold for $15.00 back in the 1920 or early 1930's along with a brief exhibition history for the artist. Not framed.

Price: $1500.00

Artist Bio: A leading figure in the Charleston Renaissance group of artists, active between 1915 and 1940, who stirred national artist through their widely distributed illustrations of life in the historic city, Alfred Hutty worked for Tiffany Studios and lived in Woodstock, New York. He came to Charleston looking for a warm climate to spend the winter, and from 1920 to 1924 directed the school of the Carolina Art Association at the Gibbes Art Gallery. A regular summer resident until his death in 1956, he was also one of the founding members of the Charleston Etchers' Club. He worked primarily in drypoint but also did paintings of non-romanticized scenes such as stooped figures in doorways and buildings in need of repair. In fact he did a drypoint etching of the tenement on Catfish Row immortalized by DuBose Heyward in his novel "Porgy." He also did oil paintings of lush gardens and plantation scenes. (Source: Askart & American Art Review)