"R.F.D. Delivery" Lot no. 2761
By Donald (David) Hutchison (1869-1954)
29.00" x 20.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
According to his U.S Naturalization records, Donald (David) Hutchison was born in Arbroath, Scotland, August 19, 1869. His family moved to Canada. He emigrated to the United States with his wife (a Canadian citizen) and infant daughter in 1901. He lived in the New York City and Connecticut area.
As a commercial artist, he is credited with covers of several of the magazines of the period. By 1927 he was painting on canvas extensively and had several portraits to his credit. He began mural painting in 1933. During the Depression, Hutchison was involved in WPA and Section projects in New York and Georgia.
He painted three mural lunettes for the Yonkers Carnegie Library (1934-36). The government grant was exhausted while doing the second work, but he voluntarily completed the third work. He purchased a small chicken farm in Brookfield, CT in 1936, turning it into an artists' enclave.
In 1938, he was selected to do a mural for the Jesup, GA post office and a year later to do three murals for the post office in New Rochelle, NY. That building, in part because of his art, is now listed in the National Record of Historic Places. All these works are still preserved.
By the late 1940's the outside walls of his modest concrete block home in Connecticut were covered in fresco murals as he worked to perfect his talent. He donated a fresco mural to Trinity Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN in 1950. He died June 12, 1954 at home in Connecticut.