Near Bishop

Artist Ralph Hulett (1915 - 1974)

Datec. 1950

MediumWatercolor

Dimensions15 x 28 in. (38.1 x 71.1 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection

Object number2019.254

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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