UPDATE: Both of these paintings had successful sales at the Santa Fe Art Auction! Congratulations to the new owner, who is an avid Hulings collector and sure to give these paintings a wonderful new home. "No matter where in the world and [more...]
Auction Alert: Two Still Lifes
"When people note that Hulings is a 'realist,' it's interesting to consider these abstract moments and think about when—and why—he left these definitions behind." Hulings' still lifes are a chance to see him work through very engaging [more...]
Gravity Check
"Hulings has done a spirited portrait of Einstein here. The swoop of his wild white hair reaches up to the top of the frame, and trails off on the right side with a soft edge that could easily be a chalk smudge." While many of us can't [more...]
Auction Alert: Caramel From The Carmelites
"If you look at this spot in Ubeda today, you'll find a paved street and no donkey, but the cistern is still there, the white walls are still crowned with terracotta tiles, and the hot sun still beats down, driving the thirst of all toiling [more...]
SOLD: Tesuque Cottonwood
Update: Tesuque Cottonwood sold at the Santa Fe Art Auction! This beautiful view of New Mexico will be gracing a new wall and we're sending our congratulations to the new owners. "Clearly 1976 was a good year in the area, because there's [more...]
Auction Alert: Tesuque Mayor’s Back Yard
"If the boy is on his way back in, he'll have to step over the napping dog, who doesn't look like he's prepared to move anytime soon." This 1974 work shows Hulings at the height of his easel-painting era. Two years after the family's move [more...]
Water is Life
"Is he off from school today or are he and the little burro full-time at the school of life?" As kids get settled into their new school year, we're seeing and hearing them out and about, playing at recess, getting on school buses, and out [more...]
Paint More, Sleep Less
Clark Hulings spent the Spring of 1960 on the Southern coast of Spain. He had been traveling continuously for over two years by then, but he was still working hard on his painting skills, and not yet ready to head home. He took a room in [more...]
SOLD: Fodder for the Donkey, Gift for the Wife
Fodder for the Donkey, Gift for the Wife by Clark Hulings oil on canvas, 9 x 12” 1978 November 10th, 2018 Santa Fe Art Auction email to inquire [more...]
Lovers & Soldiers
Update: Army Woman In Red Skirt sold successfully at auction at the end of September! Like a River of Lions is still available. "The light pours down on them from above, and almost sparkles as it touches their skin and hair. You could lose [more...]
Swiss Mist
"There were majestic mountains stationed behind those clouds and they revealed themselves periodically while I was painting. I chose in the end to cover them with mist because they stole interest from my hillside village." Late summer [more...]
Beautiful Memories of Aix-en-Provence
When I was 16 we spent the entire summer in Europe. This was not completely unusual, because we would often spend chunks of time traipsing around foreign barnyards and villages whenever I had time off from school (and sometimes when I [more...]
Last Bit of Relaxation
"It is interesting to think about how our lives have evolved over the 90+ years since my father and his family took their weekend trips in Spain." As the summer officially starts to wind down and we start the back-to-school feeling of the [more...]
If You’re in Dallas, Join Us!
"We are honored to have the CHF Dallas Art Business Summit featured in the September 2018 issue of Western Art Collector." Bigger in Texas Our partner organization, The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists, will be in Dallas for an Art [more...]
An Artist’s Alchemy
"What appears to our eyes as 'real' in a painting has, in fact, been cobbled together from abstract elements. This is an artist's alchemy: the transmutation of something basic into something valuable and meaningful." Many of Hulings' works [more...]
Mildred Pierce
"Hulings has set the scene with the downward pull of the folds in the blue curtain in the background: it's moody and full of intrigue. Mildred's face is the brightest thing on the page, as if she's commanding all the light in the room." It [more...]
A Walk with Grand-Père
"Although the overall effect is intentional and specific, the pen-strokes look free and easy and you can envision the artist’s hand at work." This lovely drawing was part of Hulings' 1999 Catalogue; it was one of several French works in [more...]
Go With The Flow
"He lets us feel the chill ourselves..." Altermann Auctions really timed this sale well, at least from our perspective. The height of summer or early fall are a perfect moments to imagine sinking into a freezing cold river. In this 1970 [more...]
Auction Alert: Donkeys Nuzzling
Update: this piece succesfully sold at Bonhams San Francisco in August 2018, and we were happy to hear that the donkeys have a new home. "There's so much detail that you can see a faint green color around the mouth of the one on the right, [more...]
Auction Alert: Santa Fe Kitchen Corner
Update: This painting sold at Bonham's San Francisco August 2018! "The large knife does cause me to question the artist's state of mind for a moment, though!" Last week we focused on a major work coming up at auction which includes some [more...]
Auction Alert: Major Hulings European Market Scene
Update: Las Ramblas had a successful sale at Coeur d'Alene summer 2018! "The most interesting time of day for this pedestrian mall is early morning. The mist has not yet burned off. Flower merchants are setting up their stalls, Barcelonans [more...]
Auction Alert: Major Hulings Grand Canyon Painting
Update: this painting sold at Coeur d'Alene to a Hulings collector who'd had his eye out for a Hulings Canyon scene for years. Congratulations! "This is the Southern Kaibab Trail. There is a Northern one as well. They connect, and it is [more...]
Portrait in Vermilion
"My father got to know a fair amount about the people who sat for him..." I do not know this man's name, but I do know that he founded the Abbeville Building and Loan in 1890, and that my father painted his portrait sometime between 1947 [more...]
Nurse Kathy
"The story of her patient's amnesia is told by the shadow on his face, and no matter how long she's been on her feet this shift, she is rosy-cheeked, and her lipstick is on-trend." As I am away this week, our Account Manager Penelope has [more...]
Blue Shoes, White Donkey
"This little gem was included in my father's 1964 solo watercolor show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from which it vanished into a private home." Boy do I wish I had a good image of this watercolor! It is of Southern Italy, no doubt about that, and [more...]
Crisis & Resilience in Guatemala
"Hundreds of firefighters and rescue workers face impassible roads and destroyed bridges, and over 3,000 residents have been evacuated..." Our hearts go out to the communities affected by the eruptions of Volcán del Fuego, not far from the [more...]
Franco’s Laundry Room
"I have a very vivid memory of being carried into fairly rough surf by a local fisherman, because I was demanding to be allowed into the water, and my mother was concerned about the waves." When I was three, my parents and I packed our [more...]
The Camel of the Bayou
"My father was so enamored of this beautiful, gentle plant, that he tried to keep it in the New Mexico high desert." Tree Hair: Native Americans named Spanish Moss Itla-Okla or "Tree Hair" because of it's springy, stringy quality. Post [more...]
The Rain in Spain
"...Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where the rain falls mainly everywhere..." Our few days of storms on the East Coast, and the recent reminders about the importance of buying produce (and especially romaine lettuce!) from sustainable [more...]
It’s Donkey Week!
"Donkeys are part of how things get done." Patient. Steadfast. Hardworking. Humble. Strong. Clark Hulings said: "If left to their own devices and their own pace, they will serve well. They are by nature sure-footed, loyal and [more...]
