View of Death Valley
Artist
Ralph Hulett
(1915 - 1974)
Datec. 1950
MediumWatercolor
Dimensions21 1/2 x 29 in. (54.6 x 73.7 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection
Object number2019.264
DescriptionRalph W. Hulett, Jr. was born in 1915 in Kankakee, Illinois. As a teenager, his family moved to Glendale, California. He excelled in art and after high school, was awarded a four-year scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He studied with Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, Phil Paradise and Herb Jepson. While still at Chouinard, he worked on Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. After graduation in 1937, he went to work full-time at Walt Disney Productions as a background painter on many of Disney's great cartoon features, including Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp, among many others.He painted a series of oil paintings of old Los Angeles, showing the Victorian houses on Bunker Hill that were demolished in the 1950s. He also traveled widely, painting in the High Sierra Mountains as well as in Mexico, Central America, Europe and Japan. Ralph Hulett died in Los Angeles in 1974.
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