Visual Resources

Bill Hutson (b. 1936), also known as William R. Hutson, is an abstract fine artist currently living and working in Lancaster, PA. During the past thirty years, Hutson has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries throughout the United States, and abroad. Hutson’s paintings are in numerous public and private collections, including a major collection at Franklin & Marshall College’s Phillips Museum of Art. Hutson is currently the Jennie Brown Cook and Betsy Hess Cook Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Franklin & Marshall College, where he also taught in the Art & Art History Department for over twenty years. 

The Bill Hutson Slides Collection contains a selection of slides digitized from the Bill Hutson Collection (view the collection finding aid). Digitized slides include images of pieces in-progress in Hutson’s studio and images of the completed artwork. Description of the slides was informed by an interview with Bill Hutson on May 3, 2018. Image copyright is owned by Bill Hutson, and images are made available in this collection with his permission. 

Emerita Professor of Art Virginia Maksymowicz donated to Franklin & Marshall College her personal teaching collection of approximately 8,500 35-mm slides of contemporary art.  The work represented in Scholars Square includes site-specific sculpture, art in public spaces, and gallery installations.