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          Alvin Gittins

          English painter

          Alvin Lorraine Gittins

          Born(1922-01-17)17 January 1922

          Kidderminster, England

          Died7 March 1981(1981-03-07) (aged 59)
          SpouseGwendolen Ellis

          Alvin Loraine Gittins (17 January 1922 – 7 March 1981) was an English-born artist who was a professor at the University of Utah (U of U).

          He has been described as "one of [the United States] greatest portrait artists ever".[1]

          Life and career

          Gittins was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. He attended art school in London.

          Born in Kidderminster, Worcester, England, he came to the United States in to study, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University in.

        1. Born in Kidderminster, Worcester, England, he came to the United States in to study, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University in.
        2. When Alvin Loraine Gittins was born on 17 January , in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Lawrence Gittins.
        3. Alvin Gittins was a portraitist and teacher.
        4. The Alvin L. Gittins photograph collection consists of portrait photographs used by Alvin Gittins for research in painting portraits, as well as photographs and.
        5. William Edward L Gittins was born in month Death.

          6. Gittins was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in England. He first came to the United States in 1946 and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1947. He was appointed a member of the U of U art faculty in 1947.

          From 1956 to 1962 Gittins was head of the U of U's art department.

          Gittins painted 89 portraits of people connected with the U of U and at least one of his portraits hangs in almost ever