{{Short description|American artist}} {{Infobox person | name = Ken Shutt | birth_date = 1928 | birth_place = Long Beach, California, United States | death_date = April 2, 2010 | death_place = Atascadero, California, United States | education = Pasadena City College,<br /> Art Center College of Design,<br /> Chouinard Art Institute | occupation = Visual artist | known_for = Watercolors, bronze sculptures }} [[File:'Coconuts' by Ken Shutt, 1972, watercolor, Waialae Country Club.JPG|thumb|300px|''Coconuts'' by Ken Shutt, 1972, watercolor, Waialae Country Club|alt=Coconuts by Ken Shutt, 1972, watercolor, Waialae Country Club]]
'''Ken Shutt''' (1928 – April 2, 2010) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. He was active in California and Hawaii.
==Life== Ken Shutt was born 1928, in Long Beach, California.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Apr/20/ln/hawaii4200332.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-05-28 |archive-date=2012-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324210424/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Apr/20/ln/hawaii4200332.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He grew up in Whittier, California.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sculptor's works grace many isles' public spaces |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/content/20100517_sculptors_works_grace_many_isles_public_spaces}}</ref> Shutt graduated from Pasadena City College, the Art Center College of Design, and the Chouinard Art Institute.
He moved to Hawaii in 1963, and lived there until 1995.<ref>Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 76-77, 96.</ref> He returned to California in 1995, to be near his foundry, when he was commissioned to create a bronze sculpture for the entrance of Sea Life Park Hawaii.<ref>''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', Sculptor's works grace many isles' public spaces, May 17, 2010</ref> His best known paintings are watercolors of Hawaii's flora (see image). His sculptures often combine such diverse materials as resin, wood, terrazzo, bronze, and granite.<ref>Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 76-77, 96.</ref>
He died 2010, at age 81, in Atascadero, California.<ref>''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', Sculptor's works grace many isles' public spaces, May 17, 2010</ref>
== Collections == The Honolulu Museum of Art and the Hawaii State Art Museum are among the public collections holding work by Ken Shutt. His sculptures in public places include:<ref>[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1L21264I64W10.32515&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!6124~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3&source=~!siartinventories&term=Shutt%2C+Ken%2C+1928-+%2C+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR#focus Ken Shutt in the Art Inventories Catalog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum]</ref>
*A granite and bronze sculpture at the Kaua{{okina}}i Performing Arts Center, Lihue, Hawaii. *Untitled 1976 sculpture, Leilehua High School, Honolulu, Hawaii *''Waialua'', 1976, Waialua High and Intermediate School, Waialua, Hawaii *''Konohiki'', 1980-1981, King Intermediate School, Kaneohe, Hawaii *''Celebrating the Arts'', 1999, Kauaʻi Community College, Kaua{{okina}}i, Hawaii *''Heritage Growing'', 1975, Laupahoehoe High and Elementary School, Laupahoehoe, Hawaii *''Lanai Ohana'', 1977, Lanai High and Elementary School, Lanai City, Hawaii *''Kaua{{okina}}i Ola'', 1981, Kaua{{okina}}i High School, Lihue, Hawaii *''Hawaiian Porpoises'', 1976, Honolulu Zoo, Honolulu, Hawaii *''Family Structure'', 1971, Kauikeaouli Hale (courthouse), Honolulu, Hawaii *''Matrix'', 1990, Hilo High School, Hilo, Hawaii *''Four Valleys'', 1978, Waianae High School, Waianae, Hawaii *''Konohiki'', 1973, Hawaii State Art Museum sculpture garden
==References== *Haar, Francis, ''Artists of Hawaii: Volume Two'', University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1977, pp. 74–78 *Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, ''Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces'', University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 76-77, 96
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