John Hutton (1906-1978), a full length engraved figurative glass window
Pomona, 1961,...

John Hutton (1906-1978), a full length engraved figurative glass window

Pomona, 1961, signed

Engraved glass, full length figure, title engraved around the head, framed,

210 cm x 89 cm (cracked)

One of three windows originally made for Fisons Building Ipswich(only two of the three known to exist).

Provenance: Family of John Hutton

Sold with a letter of authentication by Mrs Marigold Hutton

Note: John Hutton (1906-1978), a New Zealander by birth, came to England in 1936 and his first significant commission was a mural for the S.S. Orcades (1937). World War II saw him trained as a camouflage officer and in that capacity he saw service in Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Europe. In 1944 he met the architect Basil Spence (a Captain in the army) and formed a lifelong friendship that was to lead to his best known, revered and recognised work, the Great West Screen of Coventry Cathedral.

Central to Sir Basil Spences design for the new Coventry Cathedral was the desire to maintain a connection with the ruins of the bombed old cathedral. The vast and clear West Window was that means. John Hutton spoke of his design …with a translucent pattern of saints and flying angels which partly, but never entirely, obscure in either direction.

The essential characteristic of his work, be it engraved glass, drawing or mural, is line and his fascination for the human form and in particular the female form. He wrote The human figure is in my estimation the most absorbing and limitless subject in all art. Its association with history and mythology and its infinite ways of being represented make it an everlasting source of inspiration.