Property of Earll M. Pott, San Diego, CA

Description:

Clark Hulings (NY/LA/NM, 1922-2011) Louisiana, Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, depicting a cottage with family on the porch and chickens and dogs in the foreground with clothesline in the background, with label verso from Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 40 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY, titling the work 'Louisiana' and with inventory number H 1449, in a carved wood frame. Frame size: 32 in. x 44 in. Provenance: according to the consignor the painting was purchased by his grandparents, Robert Earl McConnell and Caryll Esterbrook McConnell, from the Grand Central Gallery prior to 1972 and then by descent to his mother and then to him.

Clark Hulings was born in Florida and raised in New Jersey. Over his lifetime, he resided in New York, Louisiana, and throughout Europe before settling in Santa Fe in 1972. His art training began as a teenager with Sigismund Ivanowsky and the famed draftsman George Bridgman and continued at The Art Students League with Frank Reilly. With a degree in physics from Haverford College, Pa., Hulings complemented his intellectual knowledge with his ability to see beauty in daily activities made during painting trips throughout the Western Hemisphere. After pursuing an initial career as a portraitist in Louisiana, followed by freelance illustration in New York, notably paperback book covers, during the 1950s, Hulings dedicated himself to easel painting and distinguished himself as an American Master painter, eagerly sought after by collectors, museums, and corporations. In 1965 he debuted in New York, N.Y., at The Grand Central Art Galleries. In 1976 he was the subject of a solo exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, OK., which was documented in the book Hulings—A Collection of Oil Paintings (Lowell Press), followed in 1978 by a retrospective at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX, and a 1981 exhibition at the C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT. Hulings’ work was the subject of one-man exhibitions in 1999 at Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, and in 2007 at J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, and Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Hilton Head, S.C. In 2011 The Forbes Galleries, NY mounted a Hulings show with examples of work from every decade of his career. In 1986, Hulings authored the book A Gallery of Paintings by Clark Hulings (White Burro Publishing). The book was updated and reissued in soft cover in 2006.

Measurements: Height: of canvas 24 in. x Width: 36 in.

Condition:

Good condition.

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