15 Facts About Maude Hutchins

Maude Hutchins was an American artist, sculptor, and novelist.

Maude Hutchins was born Maude Phelps McVeigh on February 4,1899, in Guilford, New York.

Maude Hutchins was the daughter of Warren Ratcliff McVeigh, an editor at the New York Sun, and Maude Louise Phelps.

On September 10,1921, Maude married Robert Maynard Hutchins, who went on to become University of Chicago president.

Previously, Mr Hutchins was on the faculty of Yale University which is how he met Maude.

Maude Hutchins won several awards, including the Warren Whitney Memorial Prize for heroic figure at the Beaux Arts in New York.

Maude Hutchins graduated in 1926, but remained at Yale for two years after, during which time she executed a number of portraits and did other professional work.

Maude Hutchins had her first art show at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York City.

Maude Hutchins exhibited at the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, became a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and showed with that organization in New York.

Maude Hutchins's artwork was included in many exhibitions at such places as the Brooklyn Museum, Minneapolis Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Wisconsin Union, the Renaissance Society, the St Louis Museum, and annual shows at the Chester Johnson-Dell Quest Galleries.

Maude Hutchins began publishing short stories poems and plays-for-reading in various literary magazines like the New Yorker, the Kenyon Review, Accent, Mademoiselle, Nation, Epoch, Poetry, and the Quarterly Review of Literature.

Maude Hutchins wrote several other novels, short stories, and collections of poetry as well.

Maude Hutchins invited undergraduates, male and female, to model for her in the nude.

Maude Hutchins never saw him again, and they were officially divorced in 1948.

Maude Hutchins, meanwhile, retreated with her two younger daughters to Southport, Connecticut, where she spent the rest of her life in relative obscurity.