Hutton, Warwick
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| Birthname | Warwick B. Hutton | ||||
| born on | 17 July 1939 at 16:00 (= 4:00 PM ) | ||||
| Place | London, England, 51n30, 0w10 | ||||
| Timezone | BST h1e (is daylight saving time) | ||||
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Biography
British painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author, most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolour illustrations for children’s books.
His subjects were Biblical, folk, and mythological stories which Hutton retold, such as Noah and the Great Flood, The Nose Tree, and Theseus and the Minotaur. He also worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen (The Tinderbox) and with retellings of traditional stories by author Susan Cooper (The Silver Cow, The Selkie Girl, Tam Lin).
The Nose Tree and Jonah and the Big Fish were chosen for the New York Times’s annual list of best-illustrated children's books. Jonah and the Great Fish was also the recipient of the 1984 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book.
Hutton died of cancer on 28 September 1994 in Cambridge, England at age 55. His parents were the artist and glass engraver John Hutton and the New Zealand modern artist Helen Blair.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Hutton, “I was born two months before the start of World War II, at 4.00 in the afternoon. It says the time on my birth certificate, because I am a twin. My brother was born at 3.30, so in English law (but not in some others) he is older than me.” (Something about the Author: Autobiography Series, Volume 17, Gale Research Incorporated, 1994, page 157).
Place of birth from England & Wales Civil Registration Birth Index; day and month from Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works, Volumes 61-64, page 267.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Terminal)
- Family : Childhood : Family noted (Both parents, artists)
- Personal : Birth : Twin, triplet, etc. (Younger of twin brothers)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Cancer)
- Vocation : Art : Commercial artist (Illustrator of children's books)
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (Painter, glass engraver)
- Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award
- 1939 births
- Birthday 17 July
- Birthplace London, ENG (UK)
- Sun 24 Cancer
- Moon 4 Leo
- Asc 18 Scorpio
- 1994 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Family : Childhood : Family noted
- Personal : Birth : Twin, triplet, etc.
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Vocation : Art : Commercial artist
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist
- Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award
