Toy Jungle Featured on Hutchinson Site
November 30, 2013 § 1 Comment
Toy Jungle, ca. 1934
“Toy Jungle” is currently featured on my omeka site, Artworks of Mary E. Hutchinson. For a still life of children’s toys and objects, it is really rather dark with a grimacing jack-o-lantern, gasping fish, and toppled bird figurine. Hutchinson also painted a companion canvas titled “Spark Plug” which has a cheerier disposition.
Spark Plug, ca. 1934
Both paintings may be easel versions of Hutchinson’s 1933 WPA mural “Jungle.” I don’t know where the mural was and have little hope that it has survived, but I have located both “Toy Jungle” and “Spark Plug” in private collections.
Jae Turner 
I found a Hutchinson painting at a yard sale site.
It looks like water lilies. The signature looks correct. Any record of such a painting? Contact me and I’ll send a photo.