City Hall from China Town
Artist
Ralph Hulett
(1915 - 1974)
Date1940s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions10 x 20 in. (25.4 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection
Object number2019.246
DescriptionIllinois-born Ralph Hulett moved to California with his family as a teenager, and attended high school in Glendale. He was awarded a four-year scholarship to study at the Chouinard Institute, where his teachers included Millard Sheets, Phil Paradise, Phil Dike and Herb Jepson. While still in school, he worked on Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” and went on to work full-time at the Disney Studios in a career that stretched from 1940’s “Pinocchio” all the way to 1967’s “The Jungle Book.” He was also an accomplished fine artist who exhibited regularly with the California Water Color Society and the American Watercolor Society. Notably, he created a series of paintings of the changing scene in downtown Los Angeles, such as this unusual view of L.A. City Hall from the middle of a street in Chinatown.On View
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