Gertrude Eleanor Spurr Cutts (1858–1941) was a Canadian artist.

Career

Born in Scarborough,

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, England, Gertrude Spurr began her career as an artist in England, exhibiting her work with the

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and the

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. In 1890, Cutts emigrated to Canada, moving to

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, and opened an art studio. Cutts exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. In 1900, she studied at the

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with

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, and

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. She married William Cutts in 1909, and the couple spent three years painting in England. Cutts had a diverse body of work, comprising oil and watercolour paintings and pen and ink sketches; she is perhaps best known for her rural landscape paintings. She also worked as a restorer of old or damaged paintings. Cutts' work is included in the collections of the

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, the

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, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the

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. The Gertrude Spurr Cutts fonds is at the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives. She died in

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in 1941.

References

External links

Gertrude Spurr Cutts fonds
at the

, Ottawa, Ontario {{DEFAULTSORT:Cutts, Gertrude Spurr 1858 births 1941 deaths 19th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian women artists 19th-century Canadian women artists Canadian landscape painters Artists from Yorkshire Canadian watercolourists Canadian women painters Women watercolorists British emigrants to Canada Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts