{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{short description|Western Australian businessman and art dealer}} Sir '''Claude Hotchin''' OBE (7 March 1898 – 3 June 1977) was a businessman and art dealer, patron and benefactor in Western Australia. He is remembered for his support for Australian painters and Western Australian (especially regional) art galleries.
==History== Hotchin was born at Quorn, South Australia, a son of butcher Robert John Hotchin ( – ca.27 October 1909)<!--Claude's brother, Robert A. U. Hotchin died almost a year later, ca.3 August 1910--> and Bertha Mary Hotchin (née Brown, later Osborne) ( – 28 July 1938), a tailor. In 1905 the family moved to Broken Hill, New South Wales. After leaving Broken Hill's Burke Ward school, he worked for a few years as a junior clerk at the Town Hall and moved to Adelaide in 1914<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46058028 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Barrier Miner |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=18 April 1929 |accessdate=20 January 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> or perhaps 1915,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46058185 |title=Opportunities in W.A. |newspaper=The Barrier Miner |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=19 April 1929 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Other sources have him moving to Adelaide at age 15, which would have been 1913 or 1914.</ref> and found work as "oil boy" (paint technician), messenger and shop boy in the hardware store of Clarkson Ltd, 124–126 Rundle Street, Adelaide, which specialised in glass, paint and ceramic lavatory ware.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95236588 |title=Clarkson, Limited |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |location=WA |date=21 July 1931 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
On 4 June 1925 he and his newly-wed wife, a daughter of the business owner Albert Edward Clarkson ( – ca.25 April 1936), moved to Perth as sales manager of the firm's Murray Street branch<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63713704 |title=The Social Round |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=23 March 1925 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> (previously Sedgwick Ltd.). In 1929 the store manager and local director, Charles Sutcliffe Harper, was promoted to general manager and full directorship, and Hotchin look his place as local director.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85148623 |title=Persons in the News |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=14 May 1929 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=1 Edition: Home (Final) Edition |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 1928 Hotchin built "Mornington Flats" consisting of six self-contained two-storey flats on Colin Street, West Perth, which he sold in 1930.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33354084 |title=Property Sales |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=9 August 1930 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In April 1932 the Murray Street building was destroyed by fire, and Hotchin and Harper bought out Clarksons (W.A.) Ltd., taking over premises at 94 William Street, Perth, opening on 1 June 1932.<ref name=Clarkson>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83879434 |title=Clarkson Ltd. |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=31 May 1932 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=4 Edition: Home (Final) Edition |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1940 Hotchin bought Harper's shares, business prospered, and in 1950 he was able to sell up and retire.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84483804 |title=Hardware Firm Sold |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=7 September 1950 |accessdate=20 January 2013 |page=1 Edition: Final |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=adb>Janda Gooding, [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hotchin-sir-claude-10552/text18739 'Hotchin, Sir Claude (1898–1977)'], ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 19 January 2013</ref>
==Art== Hotchin had always enjoyed visits to art galleries and early resolved to purchase as many Australian paintings as he could afford. He began collecting seriously in 1937 with the purchase in Sydney of the oil painting ''Mutiny'' by Norman Lindsay. His home became a showplace of art and meeting place for artists.<ref name=Rotary>Uren, Malcolm J. "Art for Everyone" ''The Rotarian'' June 1956 pp.16, 17.</ref> He was active in hosting art exhibitions at various venues, then in 1947 established the Claude Hotchin Art Galleries above Skipper Bailey's car showroom at 900 Hay Street, managed by his daughter Margaret.
In 1948 he inaugurated the annual Claude Hotchin competition for Western Australian artists which was to continue until 1973.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46923629 |title=To Help Art |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=24 July 1948 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=16 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 1950 he inaugurated the Claude Hotchin Silver Shield to be awarded annually for the business which best decorated its premises for the National Flower Day, held in September.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48990379 |title=Mantle of Flowers Clothes Perth |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=15 September 1951 |accessdate=20 January 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
His gallery closed in 1951 when the space was required to cope with expansion of Skipper Bailey's business. During the five years it had been in operation, the gallery had hosted over 76 exhibitions and displayed over 3,000 original works of art. The centre has been made available free of cost to musical societies and art groups.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48982117 |title=Art Centre to Close |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=25 July 1951 |accessdate=20 January 2013 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Between 1948 and 1977 Hotchin donated an estimated two thousand paintings to public art galleries, municipal councils and other public institutions through the State, notably the Royal Perth Hospital and the University of Western Australia. He donated five paintings to the CWA.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49632381 |title=City Man Gives Five Paintings To C.W.A. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=3 May 1954 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
===Perth Hospital=== The Royal Perth Hospital Art Collection, is the largest such in Australia and consists of more than 1000 paintings, drawings, and other works, by artists such as Rupert Bunny, Sir Arthur Streeton, Norman Lindsay, Arthur Boyd, Kathleen O'Connor, Albert Namatjira, Charles Blackman, Jeffrey Smart, Howard Taylor, Robert Juniper, Guy Grey-Smith, Rover Thomas, Theo Koning, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa<!-- not Kaapa Tjampitjinpa -->, Julie Dowling and Max Pam, displayed at the Wellington Street and the (now closed) Shenton Park campuses, a large proportion of which was contributed by Hotchin.<ref name=Christian>{{Cite web|url=https://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/claude-hotchin/|title=Claude Hotchin|date=31 October 2010}}</ref>
One of Hotchin's major donations to the R.P.H. was in 1954, when he contributed 31 original works and 50 prints to the collection. Of these works, Hotchin singled out for attention those by Allon Cook and Leach Barker.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49883185 |title=R.P.H. Gets a Gift of Australian Art |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Perth |date=30 September 1954 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=24 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
===The City of Bunbury Art Collection=== This collection was based on 22 works donated to the City in 1948 by Hotchin. The city of Bunbury's collection continues to grow, assisted by the Bunbury Biennale, begun in 1993 as a means of purchasing contemporary works by artists of significance to Western Australia and the South West.<ref name=Christian/> In 1949 he donated the winning canvas in his 1948 competition, entitled "East of the City" and painted by Ernest Philpot, and in 1950 two works by Kathleen O'Connor and Robert Campbell.
===The Geraldton Collection=== In 1949 Hotchin presented a valuable group of around 22 paintings to the people of Geraldton and district. In a letter to E. H. H. Hall, M.L.A., he stated that the pictures would be from the brush of representative Australian artists, and requested that they be hung in a hall easily accessible to the public at all times, and hoped that his gift would be the basis of a district art centre to which he and others could make suitable additions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47636576 |title=A Valuable Gift |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=7 January 1949 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The paintings were:<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47655586 |title=Gesture to Geraldton |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=6 April 1949 |accessdate=20 January 2013 |page=21 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=28em}} *''Old Hobart'' by Max Angus *''Princess Royal Harbour'' by Leach Barker *''Entrance to the Bullion Yard, Bank of England'' by A. B. Calvary *''8alt Lake, Rottnest'' by Robert Campbell *''Morning Song'' by Elizabeth Durack *''Beside the Derwent'' by Tasman Fehlberg *''A Bowral Landscape'' by H. R. Gallop *''Reflections'' by Alfred S. Gant *''Day Wane'' by Tom Garrett *''The Swan Valley'' by James Goatcher<!--error in newspaper article; the Geraldton Guardian got it right--> *''Looking Towards the Spit'' by John B. Godson *''Head of the Brachina Gorge'' by Hans Heysen *''Evening'' by Cyril Lander *''Dancers in Pink'' by Bernard Lawson *''Finke Gorge, N.T.'' by Edwin Pareroultja *''Bunny Flats'' by John Podger *''Scene in Gippsland'' by H. Septimus Power *''Road to Mt. Gambier'' by Max Ragless *''Autumn'' by Ethel Sanders *''Peaceful Waters'' by Percy Tassell *''Evening Symphony'' by H. Van Raalte *''Shady Pastures'' by Harold Vike {{div col end}}
===The Albany Collection=== Albany was the third W.A. country town to receive a gift of contemporary Australian art from Hotchin. The 33 paintings (originally to have been 34) included one work by an Albany painter, Leach Barker. The Lower Town Hall was to be refurbished to form the new Art Gallery. The paintings were:<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70536868 |title=Albany's Art Gallery. |newspaper=Albany Advertiser |location=WA |date=29 August 1949 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}These two references include small but useful biographies of the painters.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70536931 |title=Albany's Art Gallery. |newspaper=Albany Advertiser |location=WA |date=1 September 1949 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Second of the two-part article.</ref> {{div col|colwidth=28em}} *''Tasmanian Landscape'' by Max Angus *''There Gleams a Splendour in the Grey'' by Leach Barker *''Glass House Mountain'' by Howard Barron *''Canberra'' by Thomas H. Bone *''Broken Light'' by Robert Campbell *''Rugged Coastline'' by Albert Collins *''Morning'' by Elizabeth Durack *''The Devil's Elbow, Murrumbidgee River'' by Gordon Esling *''Terrigal Beach'' by Herbert R. Gallop *''Deserted'' by Tom Garrett *''Fertile Valley'' by James Goatcher *''Bunnagorang Valley'' by John B. Godson *''S. S. Rotomahana'' by Harold Herbert *''Golden Afternoon'' by Hans Heysen *''Gathering Hay'' by Malcolm Hone *''Margaret'' by P. Ivor Hunt *''Ocean Symphony'' by Lionel Jago *''Perth from National Park'' by Cyril Lander *''The Cart Track'' by Bernard Lawson *''Mt. Flora'' by Leonard Long *''At the Great Barrier Reef'' by Louis McCubbin *''The Belgian Poet'' by Kathleen O'Connor *''Mount Razorback'' by Edwin Pareroultja *''The Resting Place'' by H. Septimus Power *''Mount McKinlay'' by Max Ragless *''The Pioneer'' by Margaret Saunders *''Toward Portland'' by W. Spence *''Bracken Banks'' by H. Van Raalte *''Encounter Bay'' by Robert Waden *''Petunias and Apples'' by Travis Webber *''Hillside Gums'' by Travis Webber *''Anemomes'' by George Whinnen *''The Boab Tree'' by Vlase Zanalis {{div col end}}
=== The Shire of Plantagenet Collection === The Shire of Plantagenet Art collection was founded in 1956 through a significant bequest of 40 artworks from Hotchin. Over the years he continued to donate artworks with the last discernible gift being in 1972. The total number of works gifted to the Shire is 57, with most being permanently displayed at the [http://www.plantagenet.wa.gov.au/ShireServices/libraries.aspx Mount Barker Public Library].
The Shire of Plantagenet collection contains many important works by renowned 20th century, Australian and Western Australian artists that make it one of the most significant local government art collections in Western Australia. It remains a testament to Hotchin's vision in bringing such quality artworks to the people of regional Western Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.plantagenet.wa.gov.au/ShireServices/arts.aspx|title=Shire Of Plantagenet :: Shire Services :: Arts|website=www.plantagenet.wa.gov.au|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref>
The paintings were: {| class="wikitable" |+ |''North Head, Sydney Harbour'' by Sir John William Ashton |''Dinnertime Hill Arkaroola'' by Hilda Fehring |''Lengthening Shadows on the Crop'' by Kenneth Robertson MacQueen |''Victorian Coastline'' by William Spence |- |''February Landscape, Albany'' by Portia May Bennett |''The Picnic, Hunter River'' by Herbert Reginald Gallop |''The Builders'' by Bryant McDiven |''In the Everard Ranges'' by John Tribe |- |''Sands of Nanarup'' by Leach Barker |''Flinders Ranges'' by Alfred Gant |''August Afternoon Rottnest'' by Frank Mills |''Rugged Coastline'' by John William Tristram |- |''The Brook'' by William Boissevain |''Mouth of the Greenough River'' by James Goatcher |''Wave, South Coast'' by Mary Marshall Nunn |''Natures Bouquet'' by Lenora Uren |- |''Tranquility'' by Ernest Bearsby |''Salt on the Wind'' by Audrey Greenhalgh |''In a Bohemian Atmosphere'' by Kathleen O'Connor |''The Giant'' by Hennri Van Raalte |- |''Peaceful Waters'' by William Merric Boyd (Snr) |''In Old Lymington, England'' by Guy Edward Grey-Smith |''Untitled (Nude Study)'' by Kathleen O'Connor |''Towards Circular Quay'' by Hayward Veal |- |''Wintry Day, Swan Valley'' by Robert Richmond Campbell |''Robins'' by Charles Hamilton |''Fisherman's Beach Long Reef'' by Dudley Parker |''Still Life'' by Travis Webber |- |''Pink Banksias'' by Ellen Chappell |''Zinnias'' by Dorothy Millicent Hanton |''Overlooking Happy Valley S.A''. by Barbara Powell |''Valley at Halls Gap'' by Travis Webber |- |''The White Dinghy'' by Romola Clifton |''Greek Fisherman'' by Margaret Johnson |''River Lachlan NSW'' by Maxwell Ragless |''White Gums at Bridge Water'' by George Whinnen |- |''Patch of Light'' by Lucile Collins |''The White Door'' by Daphne Jones |''In the Derwent Valley Tasmania'' by Maxwell Ragless |''Calendulas'' by Elaine Windza |- |''Where the Irwin Meets the Seas'' by Allon Francis Cook |''At Rottnest Island'' by Anthony Karafylakis |''Yardie Creek, North West Cape'' by Peter Rohan |''Valley of the Yarra'' by Dudley Wood |- |''Desert Wind'' by Elizabeth Durack |''Wembley Downs'' by Maurice M Kennedy |''After the Bush Fire (Burnt landscape)'' by Marjorie Rowbotham |''Mother and Son'' by Vlase Zanalis |- |''Kimberley Morning'' by Kenneth Eades |''Bluff Knoll, Stirlings'' by Laurie Knott |''Still Life'' by Marjorie Rowbotham | |- |''Near Hermannsberg Mission N.T.'' by Walter Ebatarinja |''Hay Street, Perth'' by Cyril Lander |''Marguarita'' by Margaret Saunders | |- |''Flinders Landscape'' by Hilda Fehring |''Christmas Trees of Western Australia'' by Anthony Lazberger |''Picturesque Poverty'' by Yvonne Selby | |}
===Katanning=== In 1951 Hotchin offered a gift of 24 paintings to the people of Katanning and district, through the Katanning Road Board. The artists represented were:<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48138481 |title=Art Works Gift |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=29 November 1950 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=18em}} *Leith Angelo *Leach Barker *George C. Benson *Thomas H. Bone *Robert Campbell *Marshall Clifton *Allon Cook *Gordon Esling *Tom Garrett *J. M. Gilmour *James Goatcher *John B. Godson *Dorothy Hanton *Rolf Harris *P. Ivor Hunt *Cyril Lander *Verners Linde *Kathleen O'Connor *Edwin Pareroultja *Dudley Parker *Ernest Philpot *Max Ragless *W. Spence *V. R. Watt {{div col end}}
===Northam=== In 1952 Hotchin presented 33 Australian original works of art to the people of Northam.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49050478 |title=Works of Art For Northam |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=2 September 1952 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
===Narrogin=== In 1953 he presented a collection of 30 paintings to the people of Narrogin, to be hung in the renovated lower Town Hall. Artists represented were:<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52940274 |title=Presentation of Paintings To Narrogin |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=12 November 1953 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=18em}} *John Allcot *Leith Angelo *James Ashton *Will Ashton *Leach Barker *Howard Barron *George Benson *Charles Buch *Robert Campbell *Ellen Chappell *Marshall Clifton *Allon Cook *Rah Fizelle *Iris Francis *H. R. Gallop *Tom Garrett *James Goatcher *P. Ivor Hunt *Cyril Lander *Sydney Long *W. Mclnnis *M. A. Montford *Kathleen O'Connor *Ernest Philpot *H. Septimus Power *Herbert Rabarer *William Rowell *Alan Stubbs *Percy Tassell *Hayward Veal {{div col end}}
===Collie=== In 1954 the Collie Coalfields Road Board accepted a gift of 34 original Australian works from Hotchin to the Shire of Collie. In accepting the works the Board said that the council chamber would be eminently suited as an art gallery and would be kept open to comply with the donor's request that the works should be open to public view daily.
===Claude Hotchin Art Prizes=== The event was held annually in December at the Claude Hotchin Galleries commencing in 1948 and terminated around 1973. Two prizes were offered annually: £50 for oil and £25 for watercolour; from 1960 these prizes were doubled. The paintings were donated to the Royal Perth Hospital or to one or other of the country collections which he founded. The successful artists were:
::{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year<br /> !!Oils<br /> !!Title<br /> !!Notes<br /> !!Watercolours<br /> !!Title<br /> !!Notes<br /> |- | 1948 || {{sortname|Ernest |Philpot}} || East of the City || Bunbury Art Gallery ||(no separate prize)|| || |- | 1949 || {{sortname|Rolf |Harris}} ||On a May Morning, Guildford ||Geraldton Art Gallery ||{{sortname|George C. |Benson }} ||At Roleystone ||Geraldton Art Gallery |- | 1950 || {{sortname|Allon |Cook}} ||Bindoon Valley||Albany Art Gallery|| {{sortname|James |Goatcher}} ||Flooded River||Albany Art Gallery |- | 1951 || {{sortname|Allon |Cook}} ||scene near Scarborough ||Katanning Art Gallery || {{sortname|Marshall |Clifton |Marshall Clifton (painter)}} ||Low Tide ||Katanning Art Gallery |- | 1952 || {{sortname|Cyril |Ross}} ||Thunderheads ||Northam Art Gallery || {{sortname|Portia |Bennett}} ||The Dinghy ||Northam Art Gallery |- | 1953 || {{sortname|Ernest |Bearsby}} ||Early Hours ||Narrogin Art Gallery || {{sortname|Katherine |Jarvis}} ||Banksias in Sunlight ||Narrogin Art Gallery |- | 1954 || {{sortname|Clem |Ambler}} ||Rain in the Morning ||Collie Art Gallery || {{sortname|Maurice M. |Kennedy}} ||Rain in the Morning ||Collie Art Gallery |- | 1955 || {{sortname|A. |Karafylakis}} || || || {{sortname|Katherine |Jarvis}} || || |- | 1956 || {{sortname|Ernest |Bearsby}} || || || {{sortname|Romola |Clifton}} || || |- | 1957 || {{sortname|Norman |Aisbet}} || || || {{sortname|Cyril |Lander}} || || |- | 1958 || {{sortname|Allon |Cook}} || || ||Robert Alexander Matier||A Calm Departure||City of Fremantle Art Collection |- | 1959 || {{sortname|William |Boissevain}} || || || {{sortname|Cyril |Lander}} || || |- | 1960 || {{sortname|Maurice |Kennedy|dab=artist}} || || || {{sortname|A. |Stubbs}} || || |- | 1961 || {{sortname|Ailsa |Small}} || || || {{sortname|Bryant |McDiven}} || || |- | 1962 || {{sortname|S. A. |Smith}} || || || {{sortname|Leach |Barker}} || || |- | 1963 || {{sortname|Vlase |Zanalis}} || || || {{sortname|S. A. |Smith}} || || |- | 1964 || {{sortname|David |Gregson}} || || || {{sortname|Walter |Terrell}} || || |- | 1965 || (none awarded) || || || (none awarded) || || |- | 1966 || {{sortname|Ailsa |Small}} || || || (none awarded) || ||<ref>McCulloch, Alan ''Encyclopedia of Australian Art'' Hutchinson of London 1968 {{ISBN|0-09-081420-7}}</ref> |- | 1967 || || || || || || |- | 1968 || || || ||Robert Alexander Matier||In the Halls||Royal Perth Hospital |- | 1969 || || || || || || |- | 1970 || || || ||Robert Alexander Matier||Pastoral||Royal Perth Hospital |- | 1971 || || || || || || |- | 1972 || || || || || || |}
===Women artists=== Hotchin's had an idealistic attitude to women<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59683431 |title=A MAN'S SLANT ON WOMEN. |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 – 1954) |location=Perth |date=27 December 1953 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> which with today's sensibilities may appear patronising, but there is no doubt about his even-handedness in dealing with woman painters. Among those whom he exhibited prominently were: Portia Bennett,<ref name=w2>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49058075 |title=Good Work by Women Painters |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=14 October 1952 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Irene Carter, Ellen Chappell,<ref name=w1>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47842413 |title=Two Women Painters |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=19 April 1950 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=29 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Julie Dowling, Elizabeth Durack, Iris Francis,<ref name=w2/> Ella Fry,<ref name=w3>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48986693 |title=Exhibition of Work By Two Women Artists. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=22 August 1951 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Audrey Greenhalgh,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48197047 |title=A Painter in Oils |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=16 May 1951 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Dorothy Hanton,<ref name=w1/> Katherine "Kath" Jarvis,<ref name=w2/> Kathleen O'Connor,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47668291 |title=Changes in Style |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=8 June 1949 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Ethel Sanders,<ref name=w3/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49227412 |title=Landscape Scenes of W.A. Please |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=18 August 1953 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Margaret Saunders, Ailsa Small
==Religious and civic life== Hotchin was an active member of the Methodist Church and lay preacher of the Congregational Church,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32381404 |title=Tomorrow's Services |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=30 January 1932 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He was a member from 1930, and for many years Hon. Secretary, of the Perth Rotary Club and as such promoted the use of white canes by blind citizens.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83567043 |title=White Walking Sticks |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=10 March 1932 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=7 Edition: Home (Final) Edition |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was elected president in 1935.
He was active in with the Boy Scout movement (a district commissioner for the Subiaco-Hollywood district), and leader of the Perth Rover Scout crew. His support for Girl Guides of Western Australia included a display of his private collection at his Middle Swan home "Mandalay" in aid of the Guide camp "Paxwold".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49888035 |title=Art Aids Funds For Guides at Middle Swan. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=25 October 1954 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was also a worker in the Y.M.C.A. of Perth, including a period as Chief Fellow of the Perth Y.M.C.A. Fellowcraft (a band of older members of the Y.M.C.A.). He was a member of the executive of the Chamber of Manufactures and president of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society.<ref name=Clarkson/> He was on the board of the Tom Allan Memorial Orphans' Home.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32886567 |title=Rotary President |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=31 May 1935 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=17 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He was a founding member of the Crippled Children's Society of Western Australia in 1938. He was a member (1947–1964) of the board of trustees of the Public Library and Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia from 1947 to 1964 and chairman from 1960 to 1964 of the Art Gallery's board of directors. He served on the senate of the University of Western Australia from 1951 to 1969 and on the university's McGillivray Art Bequest committee from 1961 to 1973.<ref name=adb/> He was chairman of the Arts Council of W. A. and chairman of the Jubilee Arts committee in 1951.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48996243 |title=Art Exhibits For Perth. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=24 October 1951 |accessdate=20 January 2013 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Personal== He married Doris May Clarkson on 4 May 1925. Their first home was at Nedlands, but soon moved to "Mornington", 56 Colin Street West Perth. They had a home at Darlington for a short time, then "Mayfair" at 50 Colin Street, "Mandalay" (once the home of John Septimus Roe) at Middle Swan (near Caversham and Guildford) then "Chartwell" at Mundaring.
Their daughter Margaret was born on 25 April 1928 and married Douglas McPherson on 25 January 1952.
Hotchin was a tall man, impressive and charming, "one of the finest looking and sartorially perfect men in Perth"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75452686 |title=Pertinent Paragraphs |newspaper=The Mirror |location=Perth |date=13 November 1937 |accessdate=19 January 2013 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and an accomplished public speaker. His recreations included poetry, golf, swimming, motoring and gardening.
He died on 3 June 1977 in Albany, Western Australia and was buried in the nearby Allambie Park cemetery.<ref name=adb/>
==Recognition== *In 1952 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1107220 It's an Honour: OBE, 5 Jun 1952]. Retrieved 14 April 2015</ref> and was knighted in 1967.<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1083350 It's an Honour: Knight Bachelor, 10 Jun 1967]. Retrieved 14 April 2015</ref> *In 1974 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. in 1974. *His portrait, painted by Ivor Hele, hangs in the Art Gallery of Western Australia. *His portrait, by William Boissevain, was an entry in the 1957 Archibald Prize.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46931281 |title=It seems to me. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=6 February 1957 |accessdate=21 January 2013 |page=24 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *His name survives in the Sir Claude Hotchin Bequest Fund and the Sir Claude Hotchin Art Foundation, both of which are used by the Western Australian Art Gallery to purchase works of art.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/support-us/documents/AGWA-Foundation-20th-Anniversary-book-web_000.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504075708/http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/support-us/documents/AGWA-Foundation-20th-Anniversary-book-web_000.pdf |archive-date=4 May 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130129101408/http://www.rph.wa.gov.au/art.html Royal Perth Hospital Art Collection] *[https://archive.today/20130219180738/http://www.brag.org.au/sys/exhibition/exhibition.php?id=22 City of Bunbury Art Collection] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130430042631/http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/about_us/geraldton_regional_gallery.asp Geraldton Regional Art Gallery] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130419055825/http://www.katanning.wa.gov.au/Art-Gallery.42.0.html Shire of Katanning Art Gallery]
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