As a therapist in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Lutyens would create close observations of the characters he met, as well depicting as daily life within the institutions where he worked.
Colin Gale, the museum’s director, said that Lutyens had “poured empathy for his subjects into his art through careful rendering and visual metaphor and has drawn on, and depicted, his own feelings.
“As well as documenting aspects of daily life in institutions, Lutyens’ work also comprises a poignant record of human emotion and experience.”
The exhibition, based in the 1930s former administration building of Bethlem Royal Hospital, the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, will run until 31 August.
