(1872-1951)
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she was a talented painter and pottery decorator, trained at Newcomb College Art School with Ellsworth Woodward and Mary Sheerer, and later at the Eastern Design Schools. She was active with the Southern Art Associations, including the New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club. A teacher and writer, she was also secretary to the Director of the Delgado Museum of Art (1925-45), where she supervised the WPA Art Project. Hutson also initially instructed her father, artist and scholar Charles W. Hutson, although his art, a style of modern abstract primitivism, is generally described as self-taught.
