Orange Street, Nantucket
Ruth Haviland Sutton: c. 1940s

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Orange Street
Ruth Haviland Sutton (1898-1960)
Orange St., Nantucket
American: c. 1940s
Lithograph
Signed in pencil lower right; titled lower left
10.25 x 12.25 inches, overall
7.75 x 9.75 inches, image
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Picturesque, limited edition, lithographed view of Orange Street in Nantucket, Massachusetts, looking down a quiet tree-lined street toward a church clock tower on a sunlit day.  The trees cast shadows upon the street and buildings.

Ruth Haviland Sutton was a portraitist, painter, lithographer, block printer and teacher of art who spent the bulk of her career in her native Massachusetts.  Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a descendant of the Haviland china manufacturing family, she studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grand Central Artists School, the Arts Student League and with J. Farnsworth and Henry B. Snell.  She was a member of several artists organizations including the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Nantucket Art Association, the Springfield (Massachusetts) Artists Guild, the Boston Society of Arts & Crafts and the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA).  She exhibited regularly with many of these groups from the mid 1920s to the mid 1940s, winning numerous prizes.  In 1955, she moved back to Nantucket.  Her works are in various collections, including the Library of Congress, the Springfield Museum of Art, and the public libraries of Boston and New York City.

References:

“Creators, Related names.” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fineprhtml/fineprAuthors16.html (17 November 2004).

Falk, Peter Hastings, ed.  Who Was Who in American Art.  Madison, Connecticut:  Sound View Press, 1985. p. 606.