Watercolor Artist. Hutty's early elementary education was in the Grand Haven public schools and in 1893 he received an art scholarship. However he turned the scholarship down because of his families financial needs and accepted a job in a stained glass factory. In 1907 he learned of a newly founded school of painting at Woodstock, New York and went there to study. While there he formed an association with Tiffany Studios in New York City and developed a career as a painter. In World War I he served with a small group of artists as a camoufleur, helping to make ships less visible at sea. In 1919 Hutty accepted an invitation to come to Charleston, South Carolina and establish an art school for the Carolina Art Association. He would later say that he accepted this position because "I was stone broke." He conducted classes each winter for the next five years and was credited with encouraging the art interests of young Charlestonians. He later said that he discovered that he was in love with Charleston and realized that he could not capture all he saw and felt with paints and water colors, turning to etching, a skill he had not yet developed. This change brought fame and recognition to Hutty as well as Charleston. For the rest of his life he would spend winters in Charleston and summers in Woodstock, New York. He was the recipient of so many art honors that the 1947 issue of "Who's Who in America" devoted almost half a column to them. At the time of his death he had been internationally noted as the "first" American selected to the prestigious British Society of Graphic Arts. Nationally his prominence as a renown artist were reflected in his works which were represented in permanent collections of the Chicago Art Institute, Detroit Institute of Art, Library of Congress, Cleveland Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Los Angeles Museum, Municipal Art Gallery at Phoenix, Arizona, the U. S. National Museum, California State Library, Gibbes Art Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum. His etching of Charleston Lowcountry scenes have won more than a dozen medals for the quiet, unassuming artist, including the prized Scarab Club Medal instituted by the Detroit Institute of Art, the Logan Prize, the Shaw Prize, the Clark Prize and the Howe Prizes. He also was one of the founder of the Woodstock Art Colony.