Untitled
John Hultberg, American, 1922 - 2005
mid-20th century
Oil on canvas
Overall: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.5 cm)
Frame: 17 7/8 × 20 7/8 in. (45.4 × 53 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Frank O. Hamilton Collection; Gift of Kedar K. Adour, MD
2017.58.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed on frame backing paper, upper right, in blue ink: JOHN HULTBERG / Purchased Provincetown Mass / c.1958-1961
Label
I looked deep into my solitudinous pool, and this is what I found,Semi-abstract hankerings suspended between verisimilitude and shapesOf sterility’s sour geometry. --John Hultberg
Rather than mining specific images “of something,” John Hultberg, wanted his paintings to “be something.” Our viewing experience, though not strictly determined, would come to define the work of art. Hultberg presents shapes, lines, textures, and colors to which viewers may respond both consciously and unconsciously. Just when we begin to sense a scene, suggested here by what could be a horizon separating land and sky, he interrupts our view with the bold grey, yellow, and red geometric shapes.
From the 2023 exhibition The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, curated by John Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director
Course History
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023
Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023
Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023
First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Art for Dartmouth, Citrin Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 15-February 23, 2020.
The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe-Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-December 16, 2023.
Provenance
Kedar K. Adour, MD, San Francisco, California; given to present collection, 2017.
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