Jan C. Juta (September 1, 1895 – December 21, 1990) was a painter and muralist closely associated with the writer

D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation ...

. He illustrated Lawrence's book ''

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'' and executed a well-known painting of Lawrence which presently hangs in Britain's

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. Juta was President of the

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from 1949 to 1952 and again from 1975 to 1979. After a career ranging from

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and

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, Juta settled in Mendham,

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, where he died in 1990. Jan Juta was the son of South African attorney and jurist Henry Hubert Juta. In 1934 he married Alice Ford Huntington, a New Yorker, daughter of the famous tennis player Bob Huntington and younger sister of the socialite Helen Huntington, thus becoming a member of the influential

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by marriage. Alice had previously been married to Charles Henry Marshall III, son of the prominent 19th-century businessman Charles Henry Marshall II.

Works

Paintings

* ''David Herbert Lawrence'', National Portrait Gallery (UK) * ''Untitled (Landscape with Cathedral)'', Smithsonian American Art Museum

Books

* ''Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa'',

Illustrations

* ''Sea and Sardinia'', Lawrence * ''Cannes and the Hills'', by Rene Juta

Notes

References

External links

David Herbert Lawrence
- National Portrait Gallery
Capsule bio
, Smithsonian
Photograph of Juta
Smithsonian * * 1895 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters American muralists 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1890s-stub South African people of Jewish descent South African diaspora in the United States