Carl Gordon Cutler

American (1873 - 1945)

Born in Massachusetts in 1873, Cutler was a respected color theorist and landscape painter. He had extensive artistic training including studying at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, as well as at the Academie Julian in Paris. Cutler was a member of the Boston Art Association, the Copley Society and the Society of Independent Artists.

Cutler exhibited extensively throughout his career, including in the Paris Salon in 1899 and at the Armory Show in New York in 1913, an exhibition which introduced modernism to America. Works by Cutler were also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Art Club, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art and others.

After the Armory Show, Cutler began painting along the Maine Coast, capturing the landscape of Mt. Desert Island, Deer Isle and Camden Hills, as well as along Eggemoggin Reach, where he maintained a cottage for thirty years.