Hutchins’ artworks represent a seriously conceptualized body of work.  Effortlessly, he improvises the freshness of plein-air compositions.  As demonstrated in his refined paintings and impromptu studies, Hutchins emerges as a fully shaped artistic personality armed with an impressive arsenal of technical skills and talents.  Lionized within a circle of romantics and esthetes as the “American Dante,” Hutchins was the living embodiment of a romantic sensibility between past and present. .”

Hutchins exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Boston Art Club and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.  From 1925 until his death in 1945, he joined the faculty at American University where he chaired the Art Department.