Clark Hulings was born in Florida and raised in New Jersey.
17 Facts About Clark Hulings
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Clark Hulings came back to the League to give a lecture in 2007.
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Clark Hulings was born in 1922 in Florida, where his father, Courtland Marcus Hulings, was the manager of a plant which produced a gas for fumigating orange trees.
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Clark Hulings's mother died of tuberculosis when he was an infant, and he and his sister, Susan, were sent to live with their maternal grandparents in Potsdam, New York, for the next three years, while his father worked in Valencia, Spain.
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In 1928, the Hulings family returned to the United States, settling in Westfield, New Jersey, where Clark's younger sister, Elena, was born.
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In 1946 Clark Hulings moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where his parents lived at the time, and he had a one-man show of his work at the galleries of the Louisiana Art Commission.
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Clark Hulings included several portraits of family members and the show launched him on his successful career as a portrait painter.
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Clark Hulings continued to paint landscapes and became interested in design and illustration work, which led him back to The Art Students League for three years beginning in 1948 - this time as a student of Frank Reilly, a noted teacher and artist himself.
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Clark Hulings gradually moved up to paperback book covers and magazine illustrations, by 1955, his illustration career was firmly established.
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Clark Hulings returned to New York City in the fall of 1960 and resumed his illustration career to recoup finances.
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Clark Hulings was admitted to the Grand Central Art Galleries, which represented him for the next eight years and held one-man shows of his work in 1965 and 1967.
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Clark Hulings began placing paintings in competitive shows of realistic art, winning several prizes, including The Council of American Artists' award at the Hudson Valley Art Association for Restaurante Vicente, and the gold medal given by the Allied Artists of America for Ontinyent.
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Clark Hulings moved back to the artistic and cultural magnet of Santa Fe, New Mexico after a doctor suggested that it would be good for his health, due to dormant tuberculosis that was being aggravated by New York City pollution.
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In 1976 A Collection of Oil Paintings by Clark Hulings was published by The Lowell Press as a catalog to accompany a one-man show at the Cowboy Hall of Fame under the auspices of NAWA.
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Clark Hulings was presented with the Hall's Trustees Gold Medal for his "distinguished contribution to American art".
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In 1980, Clark Hulings's painting The Pink Parasol won wide acclaim at the annual Western Heritage Sale in Houston, Texas.
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Clark Hulings married Mary Belfi in 1966 and their daughter Elizabeth Clark Hulings was born two years later.