| John Mitty Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
Anne P. Tuttle: A LIfe in Art
Lifetime Retrospective Arts Show
Dates: September 6 through November 13, 2012
Reception date: September 16, 2012 from 2:00 to 5:00PM
Location: Port Jefferson Village Center
101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson NY 11777
Press contact: Amy Tuttle, Program Director
Greater Port Jefferson - Northern Brookhaven Arts Council www.gpjac.org
direct phone number: 516 617-2196
Beginning September 6th, and running through November 13th, 2012, there will be a major exhibit at the Port Jefferson Village Center: Anne P. Tuttle – A Life in Art.
This lifetime retrospective will be sponsored by the Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council and the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson. The Opening Reception will be held on Sunday, September 16th from 2 to 5PM. The Port Jefferson Village Center hours are from 9AM to 9PM seven days a week, closed on major holidays.
Longtime Three Village resident Anne Palmer Tuttle was very well-known as an important printmaker and painter, and as a highly respected art instructor for 50 years until her sudden passing in October of 2011 at the age of 89.
Born outside of Philadelphia in 1922, she was the oldest child of a family of artists, growing up in the Brandywine region. As a teenager during the Depression, she moved with her mother and siblings to Brightwaters, Long Island, where her mother was able to find work as a school teacher. Anne put herself through college, and received her BA with honors from Long Island University.
She met her future husband, Bruce Tuttle, at Bay Shore High School. They eventually settled in Stony Brook in 1952, raising five children in the house she designed. Bruce had become a test pilot for Grumman Aerospace Corp., and famously survived a jet crash in Long Island Sound near Port Jefferson in December of 1951.
In 1961, after the youngest of her five children started school, Anne resumed her interest in painting. She studied with Stony Brook illustrator Bob Berran until 1967, and was an art teacher at Scraggy Hill School in Port Jefferson for several years. In 1968, Anne began studying under American master artist Robert Brackman at the Madison Art School, continuing through the mid-1970s, which precipitated a watershed change in her development as a Master Artist. After her divorce from Bruce, she painted in France for a summer, which had been a lifelong dream. Upon her return from France, Anne studied printmaking at Stony Brook University, as well as studying under artist Malcolm Morley, studying his “super realist” technique. At age 55, she received her Master of Art, magna cum laude. She also studied at Pratt Graphic Center in order to refine her technique.
In her later years, Mrs. Tuttle often drove to Maine to sketch and paint. She thoroughly relished painting the sea-swept landscapes of Monhegan Island, so attractive to many artists, including Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, and Robert Brackman’s own mentor, Robert Henri.
Mrs. Tuttle taught art for many years at Islip Art Museum, and was a highly respected mentor at Empire State College. Several of her students have gone on to become art teachers themselves, and almost all of her students emphatically state that she has changed their lives.
Her printmaking work is recognized around the world.
Mrs. Tuttle received many awards for her portraits, figures and etchings, and is listed in Who’s Who. Her portrait commissions include the President of the Electrical Workers Union, the Vice President and Treasurer of RCA and the President of the Board of Trustees of Mather Hospital.
In May of 2009, on her 87th birthday, Anne embarked from her home in East Setauket on a solo cross-country trip in a camper van. During this once-in-a-lifetime trip, she sketched and painted landscapes all across the United States, eventually traveling through Canada to Alaska, returning to New York in October after 5 months on the road.
This exhibit features works from every phase of Anne P. Tuttle’s long and illustrious career as an artist. The progression from talented housewife to Master Artist will be on display for the first time. Anne very rarely exhibited her work, preferring to devote her time to teaching and to the creative process instead. In addition to oils, pastels, pencil sketches and watercolors, many of Anne’s extraordinary etchings will be on view, alongside a display of several of the actual metal plates on which she used to create them.
Anne P. Tuttle’s artist statement:
“Although exhibiting throughout the world as a printmaker, my main focus now is as a painter in oils and pastels. Capturing the essence of the subject, whether portrait, landscape or still life, and the utilization of the principles of good painting in doing so, continue to fascinate me.”
A Stillness in the Air - etching by Anne P. Tuttle
Photo of Anne P. Tuttle by Susan Bracken-Gilday
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