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GEORGE TUTE R.E., R.W.A., N.D.D. (born 1933)
“The Great Storm ’88 – Birds & Beasts”
Wood Engraving. Signed, titled & numbered 84/250 in pencil
Image 5 5/8” x 7 ˝” (141mm x 190mm).
Published by the Society of Wood Engravers
at the invitation of the National
Trust’s Foundation for Art 1989
to commemorate the Great Storm of 1987 and its aftermath IMAGE IMAGE
George Tute is a printmaker, wood engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher. He was born in Hull, Yorkshire and after his
education at Baines Grammar School in Lancashire he 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. The
Victoria and Albert Museum holds his work.
