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John Hultberg

Grear Gun 1963 pa1nt1ngs. Hultberg is creating an epic of America Navy in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946 as a Lieutenant.
Oil on canvas
31 X 39 in. unsurpassed in concept and originality of execution by On discharge he began painting again and took a
Galerie Anderson-Mayer any other living artist. It stretches geographically from course at the Art Students' League, New York, from
coast to coast and in space of time from the ending of 1949 to 1951. In 1954 he paid his first visit to Paris.
the frontier to the industrialization of our cities, fore­ He now lives in New York.
casting the space age. Each painting appears to fit First one-man exhibition was held at Contemporary
a special place in a giant jigsaw puzzle of America. Gallery, Sausalito. California. in 1949 and in 1953 he
Form is the warp upon which his dreams are laid. showed for the first time in New York at the Korman
Through the form he runs a weft-the psychological Gallery. From 1955 he has shown frequently at the
drama of man, depicted with utmost subtlety and Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, also in Paris (!:ist
innuendo.' at Galerie Anderson Mayer and Galerie du Dragon),
Hultberg was born in Berkeley, California. in 1922 of London. Germany, Italy, Japan, Los Angeles, Detroit
Swedish parents. He began to paint when he was only and Ghent. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship,
fourteen years old. From 1939 he studied at Fresno a Hallmark award and his work is included in major
College and graduated in 1943. He served in the U.S. collections in the U.S.A. ■
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