Artworks

Frederick William Hutchison N.A., R.C.A. (1871-1953)

The painting by Hutchison is among the finest works recorded by the artists. The parents of today’s owner of this important work were preferred clients of Walter Klinkhoff from the early 1960s. They asked to be offered works of art of quality and responded by making their purchase. Over the years our family has sold numerous fine paintings from their collection.

Only a bit shy of 100 years since the completion of Winter, Charlevoix County, near Baie St Paul, the painting has maintained a freshness and vitality evidenced by the best of Fred Hutchison’s paintings of the Charlevoix region where he sketched alongside his close friend Clarence Gagnon.

Hutchison was a student of William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, then the Académie Julian and the École Colarossi for 2 years in Paris, followed by study in New York City with William Chase as the master. He taught at the College of the City of New York from 1905 for more than 3 decades. According to research for her M A Thesis on F W Hutchison at Montreal’s Concordia University in 1982 Stephanie Thomas concluded that for more than 25 years Hutchison rented the same cottage in Baie St Paul belonging to Joseph Simard for part of the summer and early fall while on summer holidays from his teaching duties. Hutchison’s grand nephew, Peter J Hutchison researched the artist and wrote that “A dear friend of the Clarence Gagnons was Florence Gutteridge who had a cottage in Cacouna, Quebec on the south shore. It was in 1922, when ‘Tant Flo" came to Baie St. Paul for her annual visit with the Gagnons, that she first met Frederick Hutchison. Florence would become Hutchison's wife …...’