Clarke Hutton, British 1898-1985 - Trees, Surrealist Composition in Green, 1975; oil on panel, signed with initials and dated lower right 'CH 75', signed, titled and dated on the reverse of the frame, 22.5 x 22.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: Louise Hallett...

Clarke Hutton, British 1898-1985 - Trees, Surrealist Composition in Green, 1975; oil on panel, signed with initials and dated lower right 'CH 75', signed, titled and dated on the reverse of the frame, 22.5 x 22.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: Louise Hallett Gallery, London; private collection Note: Clarke Hutton began his career in the art world working as a scene painter and assistant to Carl Wilhelm at the Empire Leicester Square. Following an extended trip to Europe in the late 1920s, he enrolled as a mature student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under the tutelage of A.S. Hartrick. On Hartrick's retirement three years later, Hutton took over teaching his lithography classes and was appointed head of the department. He was a prolific illustrator of around seventy books, as well as a passionate and accomplished painter. Although reluctant to exhibit, he did hold a few one man exhibitions, and exhibited work at the Royal Academy, Redfern Gallery, Zwemmer Gallery and Michael Parkin Gallery.