Biografie von Walter Egel KUHLMAN (1918-2009)

Birth place: St. Paul, MN

Addresses: St. Paul, MN; San Fran., CA, 1947

Profession: Painter, teacher, printmaker

Studied: St. Paul (MN) Sch. Art, 1936-39, with Cameron Booth; Univ. Minnesota (B.A., 1941); Calif. School FA (G.I. Bill), until 1950; Tulane Univ.; Acad. de la Grande Chaumière, 1950

Exhibited: Minn. State Fair, 1939 (landscape prize); WFNY, 1939; Minneapolis IA; Little Gal., Univ. Minn.; Walker Art Center, 1940 (solo); AIC, 1942; 6ème Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Petit Palais, Paris; Tiffany Found. Fel.; Cummington Found. Fel.; Graham Found. Fel.; Outstanding Calif. Working Artist and Teacher Award, 1982

Member: Minnesota Art Assn.; Sausalito Six; NAD, 1995

Work: PMG; CMA; Worcester Art Mus.; MMA; MoMAs in San Francisco; S„o Paulo and Rio de Janiero; Nat. Mus. Am. Art; British Mus.; Oakland Mus.; Phillips Coll.

Comments: Served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Teaching: St. Paul School Art, 1940-; faculty, Calif. School FA, 1956; also taught at Stanford Univ., Santa Clara Univ., Arizona Univ., New Mexico Univ., Univ. Michigan and Sonoma State Univ.

Sources: WW40; Modernism in California Printmaking, Nov. 1998, The Annex Galleries.