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                                                                                    departure in landscape painting. Above the static fore­
                                                                                    ground of the earth's surface divided in parallel tracts
                                                                                    running  into  the  vanishing  point  on  the  horizon  and
                                                                                    punctuated with  masts,  ditches,  fences and buildings,
                                                                                    the sky becomes alive with the dancing figures traced
                                                                                    in the  shadowy  lineaments  of  the  clouds'  blues,  rain
                                                                                    moisture  rendered  transparent  against  the  firmament
                                                                                    beyond.  This sense of drama becomes the more com­
                                                                                    pelling, because of its contrast between the real and the
                                                                                    impalpable, the solid and the transparent, ar:id empha­
                                                                                    sizes the  internal  conflict of  forces  that generates the
                                                                                    tension in the most successful of  Hultberg's paintings.



                                                                                    1                         3
                                                                                    Ear!v Spring 1 963        Winter Angel 1962
                                                                                    Oil on canvas             Oil on  canvas
                                                                                    31  X  39  in.            50  X  68  in.
                                                                                    Galerie  Anderson-Mayer   Galerie Anderson-Mayer
                                                                                    2                         4
                                                                                    No.  131963               No.161963
                                                                                    Oil on  canvas            Oil on  canvas
                                                                                    38  X  59 in.             38 X  59 in.
                                                                                    Galerie Anderson-Mayer    Gale,ie Anderson-Mayer
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