Ken Shutt
{{Short description|American artist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ken Shutt
| birth_date = 1928
| birth_place = Long Beach, California, United States
| death_date = April 2, 2010
| death_place = Atascadero, California, United States
| education = Pasadena City College,
Art Center College of Design,
Chouinard Art Institute
| occupation = Visual artist
| known_for = Watercolors, bronze sculptures
}}
File:'Coconuts' by Ken Shutt, 1972, watercolor, Waialae Country Club.JPG|alt=Coconuts by Ken Shutt, 1972, watercolor, Waialae Country Club]]
Ken Shutt (1928 – April 2, 2010) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. He was active in California and Hawaii.
Life
Ken Shutt was born 1928, in Long Beach, California.{{Cite web |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Apr/20/ln/hawaii4200332.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-05-28 |archive-date=2012-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324210424/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Apr/20/ln/hawaii4200332.html |url-status=dead }} He grew up in Whittier, California.{{cite news |title=Sculptor's works grace many isles' public spaces |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/content/20100517_sculptors_works_grace_many_isles_public_spaces}} Shutt graduated from Pasadena City College, the Art Center College of Design, and the Chouinard Art Institute.
He moved to Hawaii in 1963, and lived there until 1995.Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 76-77, 96. He returned to California in 1995, to be near his foundry, when he was commissioned to create a bronze sculpture for the entrance of Sea Life Park Hawaii.Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Sculptor's works grace many isles' public spaces, May 17, 2010 His best known paintings are watercolors of Hawaii's flora (see image). His sculptures often combine such diverse materials as resin, wood, terrazzo, bronze, and granite.Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 76-77, 96.
He died 2010, at age 81, in Atascadero, California.Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Sculptor's works grace many isles' public spaces, May 17, 2010
Collections
The Honolulu Museum of Art and the Hawaii State Art Museum are among the public collections holding work by Ken Shutt. His sculptures in public places include:[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1L21264I64W10.32515&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!6124~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3&source=~!siartinventories&term=Shutt%2C+Ken%2C+1928-+%2C+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR#focus Ken Shutt in the Art Inventories Catalog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum]
- A granite and bronze sculpture at the Kauai Performing Arts Center, Lihue, Hawaii.
- Untitled 1976 sculpture, Leilehua High School, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Waialua, 1976, Waialua High and Intermediate School, Waialua, Hawaii
- Konohiki, 1980-1981, King Intermediate School, Kaneohe, Hawaii
- Celebrating the Arts, 1999, Kauaʻi Community College, Kauai, Hawaii
- Heritage Growing, 1975, Laupahoehoe High and Elementary School, Laupahoehoe, Hawaii
- Lanai Ohana, 1977, Lanai High and Elementary School, Lanai City, Hawaii
- Kauai Ola, 1981, Kauai High School, Lihue, Hawaii
- Hawaiian Porpoises, 1976, Honolulu Zoo, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Family Structure, 1971, Kauikeaouli Hale (courthouse), Honolulu, Hawaii
- Matrix, 1990, Hilo High School, Hilo, Hawaii
- Four Valleys, 1978, Waianae High School, Waianae, Hawaii
- Konohiki, 1973, Hawaii State Art Museum sculpture garden
References
- Haar, Francis, Artists of Hawaii: Volume Two, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1977, pp. 74–78
- Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces, University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 76-77, 96
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Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:21st-century American sculptors
Category:21st-century American male artists
Category:American male sculptors
Category:Artists from Long Beach, California
Category:Chouinard Art Institute alumni