Juan Cabrillo Plaque by Sculptor Allen Hutchinson

Allen Hutchinson 'Profilr of a Young Hawaiian Girl', 1892

Allen Hutchinson (8 January 1855 – 28 July 1929

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) was an English sculptor. Hutchinson was born in Staffordshire, England. He trained in London under

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. He travelled to Canada and California in 1886. In 1888, he moved to Hawaii, where he modeled busts of King Kalākaua,

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, and president of the

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. While in Hawaii, Hutchinson married, and the couple had a daughter. In 1894, he was one of the founders of the

Kilohana Art League The Kilohana Art League was formed in 1894 as Honolulu’s first art association. On May 5, 1894, the woodcarver Augusta Graham, the sculptor Allen Hutchinson, and painters D. Howard Hitchcock and Annie H. Park created a forum where local arti ...

. In 1899, Hutchinson and his family left Hawaii for Australia and New Zealand. He returned to the United States in 1902, and moved back to London in 1928. He died in London on 28 July 1929.Kamerling, 1989 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University), the

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(Honolulu), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the

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and the

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(Sydney) are among the public collections holding sculptures by Allen Hutchinson.

References

* Dunn, Michael, ''New Zealand Sculpture: a History'', Auckland University Press, 2002, p 36–37. * Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) ''Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975'', New Providence, NJ, Marquis Who's Who, 1999. * Fielding, Mantle & Glenn B. Opitz (Editor), ''Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Poughkeepsie, NY, Apollo, 1986. * Kamerling, Bruce, "Early Sculpture and Sculptors in San Diego" in ''The Journal of San Diego History'', Summer 1989, Volume 35, Number 3. * Severson, Don R. ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 210–211.

External links

Allen Hutchinson in AskArt.com

Hutchinson's bronze bust of artist Gottfried Lindauer, Auckland Art Gallery

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hutchinson, Allen Artists from Hawaii English sculptors English male sculptors 1855 births 1929 deaths 20th-century British sculptors 19th-century British sculptors 19th-century British male artists