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Jerry Cutler was born in 1946 to Gearld Cutler and Margaret
Hetze. He grew up on a dairy farm in Wood County Wisconsin and went to
High School in Auburndale, WI. He took a Bachelor degree in fine art at
the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point in 1968 and later began his
teaching career as a public school art instructor in Platteville WI.
He moved his young family to Minnesota to work towards a Master degree in
fine art at St. Cloud State University, earning that degree in 1978. The
department then asked him to stay on as a studio faculty, teaching courses
in drawing, design, painting and sculpture. Cutler entered The Ohio State
University in 1980 receiving his Master of Fine Art degree in painting and
drawing the next year.
Upon graduation Cutler was brought to the University of Florida where he
has been a member of the Painting and Drawing faculty ever since. During
his many years there he has been cited for many accomplishments as an
artist and educator and was promoted to Full Professor in 1998.
Spending decades as a painter of the human figure, Cutler invented his
landscape idiom in 1989 and has since been exclusively involved in that
genre. During this time the paintings have been exhibited in many group
and solo shows and are now held in many private and public collections.
Cutler maintains a home and studio in Gainesville FL, where he lives with
his wife, Elizabeth Rich. He has two grown children, Nathan Cutler,
Prague, Czech Republic and Claire Eden, Atlanta, GA. He also has three
grand-daughters, Maren, Juliet, and Kensington Eden.
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