GEORGE WILLIAM TUTE R.E.,
R.W.A., N.D.D.
“The
Lepidopterist”
Oil Painting on Canvas. 60 x
70cm. Signed IMAGE
“Konigs
Stuhl, Rugen”
Oil Painting on Canvas. 30 x
40cm. Signed IMAGE
“On the Quay”
Oil Painting on Canvas. 40 x
56cm. Signed IMAGE
“The
Fish Gatherers”
Oil Painting on Canvas. 90 x
110cm. Signed IMAGE
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George Tute is a printmaker, wood engraver, painter, illustrator
and teacher. He was educated at Baines Grammar School in Lancashire and studied at Blackpool
School of Art from 1949 to 1953, the Royal Academy School from 1953 to 1958 (under Sir
Henry Rushbury), where he won silver and bronze medals for mural painting , the
Courtauld Institute, Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art and Central School
of Art , notably with Gertrude Hermes.
He was also awarded the Sir David Murray Scholarship. Tute taught at the
York School of Art and then from 1960 to 1988 at the West of
England College of Art and Bristol Polytechnic, which later became University
of the West of England where he became Principal Lecturer in Graphic
Design. He was elected Member of the
Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers and was the first Chairman of
the revived Society of Wood Engravers.
He is also a Member of the Royal West of England Academy and shows at
the Royal Academy. His work has been
exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Kew Gardens, Newport Art Gallery and he was included in the
Six Academicians Show at the Royal West of England Academy in 1997. He has
undertaken many projects as a freelance book illustrator, mainly working with
wood engraving and he has worked several times for the Folio Society. He has
also worked for the Reader’s Digest
Association, Batsford and Penguin, for firms such as the whisky company Glenmorangie and had
prints published by Merivale Editions.
Work by George Tute is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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