Gertrude Spurr Cutts
{{Short description|Canadian artist (1858–1941)}}
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| name = Gertrude E. Cutts
| image = Gertrude Spurr Cutts, A.R.C.A. (I0007836).jpg
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| alt = Gertrude Spurr Cutts in 1930
| caption = Gertrude Spurr Cutts in 1930
| birth_name = Gertrude Eleanor Spurr
| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1858}}
| birth_place = Yorkshire
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1941|1858}}
| death_place = Port Perry, Ontario, Canada
| nationality = Canadian
| education = Art Students League of New York
| known_for = Painting
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| spouse = William Cutts
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Gertrude Eleanor Spurr Cutts (1858–1941) was a Canadian artist.
Career
Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, Gertrude E. Spurr began her career as an artist in England, exhibiting her work with the Royal Society of British Artists and the Society of Women Artists.{{cite web|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=96|work=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|title=CUTTS, Gertrude E Spurr|publisher=Concordia|year=2012}}
In 1890, Cutts emigrated to Canada, moving to Toronto, and opened an art studio. Cutts exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt9e.html#cutts|accessdate=24 July 2018}} In 1900, she studied at the Art Students League of New York with George Bridgman, Birge Harrison, and John F. Carlson. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ago.net/assets/files/pdf/special_collections/SC128.pdf|title=Gertrude Spurr Cutts Conservation Notebook|publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario|author1=Furness, Amy |author2=Fitzgibbon, Gary |year=2014}}
Cutts' work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. The Gertrude Spurr Cutts fonds is at the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.{{cite web |title=Gertrude Spurr Cutts fonds |url=https://www.gallery.ca/library/ngc150.html |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=2021-03-29}}
She died in Port Perry, Ontario in 1941.
File:A Surrey Heath by Gertrude Eleanor Spurr Cutts, 1898.jpg
References
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External links
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- [https://www.gallery.ca/library/ngc150.html Gertrude Spurr Cutts fonds] at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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Category:19th-century Canadian painters
Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:Canadian landscape painters
Category:Artists from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Category:Canadian watercolourists
Category:Canadian women watercolourists
Category:British emigrants to Canada
Category:Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts