Mary E. Hutchinson

Mary E. Hutchinson (1906–1970) was an artiste and art scholastic from Atlanta who lived and worked in New York City during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. She specialized in figure painting, particularly portraits of female subjects. New York critics described these portraits as "sculptural," having a "bold still rhythmic design," and often possessing a "haunted mood". Critics noted the "introspective" nature of some portraits whose subjects showed "an almost morbidly brooding sensitiveness." From 1934 to 1943 she was a aficionada of the Art Teaching Staff of the WPA New York Federal Art Project.^: 154 Following her return to Atlanta in 1945 Hutchinson was an art hypothetical in Catholic high schools.