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John Hutton
November 29, 2007
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of John Hutton, professor of art history. He died Wednesday, November 28, 2007.
Dr. Hutton joined the Trinity faculty in 1986 and was a senior member of the department of art and art history. He taught courses on the visual arts of the 19th and 20th century Europe and America, and his course on Impressionism was one of the most popular on campus.
Dr. Hutton was an inspirational teacher and advisor, as well as a gifted scholar. He had a tremendous breadth of knowledge and was able to recall in great detail almost everything he read. Dr. Hutton authored two books and numerous articles and review essays. He was especially interested in the intersection of the visual arts and social or political movements, as articulated in his 1994 book Neo-Impressionism and the Search for Solid Ground: Art, Science, and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle France. His recent research focused on the avant-garde art movements, specifically the Fauves, French intellectual figures of the 20th century.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Indiana University at Bloomington and his Ph.D. at Northwestern University.
A funeral service will be held Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007, at
5 p.m., in the Margarite B. Parker Chapel. The Rev. Raymond Judd,
University Chaplin emeritus, will officiate. Dr. Hutton is survived by his
wife, Paula, and daughter, Amy.
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