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Gallery-style corridor: The home’s architecturally rich interior reflects the Van Sants’ love for the Arts & Crafts aesthetic, as well as their art collections. Beyond the entry hall, the TEA2 team devised a gallery-style center corridor to display paintings by Clark Hulings, Joanna Arnett and other favorite artists on the upper walls, and books and objets d’art in lower built-in bookcases. Reproduction Greene and Greene period lanterns, sourced by Marilyn, and strategically placed skylights light the way.

“Clark Hulings was an American master painter who was said to be able to describe air itself with paint. Surviving, even thriving, as a realist painter throughout the second half of the 20th century was no easy feat but Hulings had the talent and dedication, and, thanks to a successful career in illustration, he had the financial resources to pursue fine art painting full time, and to become one of the true greats of 20th century representational painting.”

The Clark Hulings Foundation (formerly Fund) helps working artists become thriving artists through business education, tools, networking, PR, and funding at critical moments. Fine Art Connoisseur featured CHF’s grant winners in 2013.

Clark Hulings “left illustration behind to focus on fine art and went on to earn a worldwide following for his paintings, which captured everyday scenes he came across during his travels in the United States and Europe. Mary and Elizabeth have established the Clark Hulings Foundation to help up-and-coming artists take advantage of opportunities to …

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Clark Hulings’s Eucalyptus Tree depicts an unnamed Arizona town circa 1900, all adobe walls and calm leafy shade.