Hutchinson, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1906-1970.

Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson (1906-1970), artist and teacher, and her partner of 25 years, Dorothy King (1908-1988), lived in Atlanta, Georgia. Mary was the only daughter of Minnie Belle and Merrell W. Hutchinson, Christian Science practitioners. Hutchinson's mother, Minnie Belle took up art and poetry later in life, exhibiting her work at galleries and museums in Atlanta. In the early 1930s, Hutchinson moved to New York City and from 1934 to 1943 was a teacher in the New York Federal Art Project under the Works Project Administration (WPA). Exhibits of her work have been held in numerous galleries and museums, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and Midtown Galleries in New York. After returning to Atlanta in 1945, Hutchinson taught art at several Catholic high schools until her death in 1970. Dorothy King was the daughter of Ralph C. and Evea (Sewell) King of Newnan, Georgia. For a brief time before he died of tuberculosis in 1940, Dorothy King was engaged to William Ferguson.