Background
Macnutt, Joseph Scott was born on January 11, 1885 in Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, United States. Son of Albert Scott and Helen Marie (Patterson) MacN.
Macnutt, Joseph Scott was born on January 11, 1885 in Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, United States. Son of Albert Scott and Helen Marie (Patterson) MacN.
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Harvard, 1906. Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1908. Student School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1916-1918.
Began as sanitarian with Pittsburgh Typhoid Fever Commission, 1908. Became health officer, Orange, New Jersey. Then lecturer at Massachusetts Institute Technology.
Also engaged in writing and research.
Portrait painting since 1920. Instructor Saint Louis School of Fine Arts (Washington University), 1927-1928.
Member of staff Woodbury School, Boston and Ogunquit, Maine, 1928, 29. Associate dean School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1929-1930.
Served as First lieutenant Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1918-1920. Member Saint Louis Municipal Art Commission, Saint Louis Artists’ Guild, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Married Agnes Cady, May 27, 1924. Children: Francis Scott, Margaret Alexandra.