Frank Rutter
British art critic, curator and activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Francis Vane Phipson Rutter (17 February 1876 – 18 April 1937)[1] was a British art critic, curator and activist.
Frank Rutter | |
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Born | 17 February 1876 Putney, London, England |
Died | 18 April 1937 Golders Green, London, England |
Nationality | English |
Other names | Francis Vane Phipson Rutter |
Occupation(s) | Art critic, curator |
Known for | Promoting Impressionism in Britain |
In 1903, he became art critic for The Sunday Times, a position which he held for the rest of his life.[2][3] He was an early champion in England of modern art, founding the French Impressionist Fund in 1905 to buy work for the national collection,[1][4] and in 1908 starting the Allied Artists Association to show "progressive" art,[5] as well as publishing its journal, Art News, the "First Art Newspaper in the United Kingdom".[6] In 1910, he began to actively support women's suffrage, chairing meetings, and giving sanctuary to suffragettes released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act—helping some to leave the country.[7]
From 1912 to 1917, he was the curator of Leeds City Art Gallery.[2] In 1917, he edited the cultural journal, Art & Letters, with Herbert Read.[8] In his writing after World War I, Rutter observed that advertising imagery was seen by far more people than work in art galleries;[9] he noted a new realism after the period of "abstract experiment";[10] and he praised the work of Dod Procter as a "complete presentation of twentieth century vision".[11]