Elizabeth Styring Nutt (1870 – 1946), was an artist and educator, known for her leadership of the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax.

Biography

Elizabeth Styring Nutt was born on the Isle of Man in 1870. Following the death of her father she moved to Sheffield. Nutt attended the Sheffield School of Art,

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, and the Sorbonne. In 1914 she received her Masters of Arts at the

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. Nutt began her teaching career in Sheffield at the Firs Hill Branch Art School, then the Sheffield School of Art and the Sheffield Training College for Teachers. In 1919 Nutt accepted

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's offer to succeed him as the Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design. In 1925 Nutt changed the name of the school to the ''Nova Scotia College of Art''. She remained at the Nova Scotia College of Art until 1943. During this time Nutt authored several books; ''Flower Drawing with the Children'' (1916), ''Significance'' (1921), ''The Why in the Drawing Lesson'' (1929), and ''The World of Appearance'' (1935). Nutt was a founding member of the Maritime Art Association. She was also a member of the Nova Scotia Society of Artists, the Nova Scotia Society of Watercolour Painters, and an associate of the

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. Nutt's work was exhibited at the Nova Scotia Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy, the

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, the

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, the Sheffield Society of Artists, the

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(London), and the

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. In 1945 Nutt returned to the United Kingdom. She died in Sheffield in 1946.

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Museums Sheffield, the

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and the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nutt, Elizabeth Styring 1870 births 1946 deaths 19th-century Canadian women artists 20th-century Canadian women artists 19th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian painters British emigrants to Canada Canadian women painters Manx artists Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts