Dorothy Hutton was one of F. E. Jackson's pupils at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1920s. She was also an early member of the Senefelder Club which Jackson co-founded in 1912. Hutton was often used by Jackson as one of his muses, this is evident from the sketchbooks and drawings by Jackson in the collection. Dorothy Hutton exhibited flower paintings and was commission by London Transport to produce posters across the city. Hutton was an official artist to the Crown Office and from 1964 a member of the Art Worker’s Guild.

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This work is from an album of drawings consisting of portraits and figure studies.

J. G. P. Delaney writes 'drawing, Jackson insisted, was not an imitation of nature an illusion of outside appearances nor a representation of the outlines of things, but an intellectual exercise, an interpretation of nature. "In figurative drawing" he said in one of his lectures, "the intention of the artist is to make a kind of explanatory diagram of the object drawn". Elsewhere, he wrote that the object of drawing "as to give the sense of solid form by means of line". Line did the work in a drawing: shading assisted it. He would encourage his students to "feel round" the form as if they were insects crawling round its contours.'

(Reference: Dr J.G.P. Delaney, F. Ernest Jackson and his school, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2000, p. 14)

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