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Hurricane by John Philip Hultberg

Hurricane by John Philip Hultberg

Hurricane

John Philip Hultberg

Title

Hurricane

 
Artist

John Philip Hultberg

  1922 - 2005 (biography)
Year
1963  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
18 x 25" image and paper size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
13 of 20  
Annotations
editioned before signature; alternative penciled titling on verso reads: "Sky Action with Rocket Tract" 
Reference
Tamarind 726 
Paper
cream BFK Rives wove 
State
published 
Publisher
Tamarind Workshop (chop, lower right above signature) 
Inventory ID
23848 
Price
SOLD
Description

In his dynamic gestural lithograph Hurricane, Hultberg expresses the powerful destruction of hurricane force winds and rain which have leveled buildings, flipped semi-trailer trucks, and rendered utility poles useless and at diagonals. The blackness of the sky warns of further peril while the landscape appears lit by a luminous aerial phenomenon often experienced after earthquakes. The 1962 Atlantic hurricane season featured Hurricanes Daisy and Ella. Hurricane Daisy was the costliest of the season and the storm dropped the highest rainfall total on record in Maine.

Impressions of Hurricane are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York; and UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.