RAINBOW MESA Painting

Joe Hutchinson has exhibited his paintings in approximately a hundred major shows and has won numerous awards, including purchase prizes at the Denver Art Museum and the Vance Kirkland Museum of Art, also in Denver. His work is in many private and corporate collections in the U.S., and in Australia, Italy, England, Germany, and France. He has also created murals, fountains and mosaic designs for banks, schools and corporations.  "¨ Joe's art started when he was a young boy growing up on a Colorado ranch. He enlisted in the Marine Corps during the latter part of the Korean War and was assigned to a combat photography and art unit. Following his discharge, he earned a BFA in Painting under the G.I. Bill, and later, a Master of Arts in Art History with emphasis in Modern and American Art and Architecture. He taught forty-five years higher education in the visual arts and in architecture in California, Colorado, Kansas and Texas. In 2005. Joe retired professor emeritus from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University During his 31 years at the university, he also taught art and architecture history courses and studio art classes in Italy, England and France.  Following retirement, Joe moved to Santa Fe and started painting full time. He has shown his oils in three Santa Fe galleries and had solo exhibitions at Nussbaumer Fine Arts, The William and Joseph Gallery and at the Ledger Gallery in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He is not currently represented by any gallery.