Background
Tuttle, Henry Emerson was born on December 10, 1890 in in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry Nelson and Fannie (Farwell) Tuttle.
Tuttle, Henry Emerson was born on December 10, 1890 in in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry Nelson and Fannie (Farwell) Tuttle.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1914, Master of Arts, 1930. Graduate student Slade School, University College (England), 1924.
Master at Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut, 1916-1918, Groton (Massachusetts) School, 1918-1929. Master of Davenport College, and curator of prints, Yale University, since 1930. Acting director Yale University Art Gallery, 1942-1945.
Artist and etcher since 1919.
Master of Davenport College. Represented by prints in collections of British Museum, Metropolitan Museum (New York The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts.
Library of Congress, Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris, France). Trustee, Saint Timothy’s School, Catonsville, Maryland.
Member American Society of Etchers, Chicago Society of Etchers, Psi Upsilon, Scroll and Key (Yale). Clubs: Graduate, Elizabethan (New Haven).
Married Isabelle Hollister, June 17, 1916. Children: Isabelle Hollister, Grace Emerson, Harriet Ann, Nancy Jackson.