Clark Hulings, (1922-2011), oil on canvas, 20 x 31 3/4 inches (actual), signed and dated lower left, Hulings © Ô07, Private Collection, NM

A well-known painter of Mexican and Southwestern genre scenes, Clark Hulings spent much of his childhood in Spain, a time that inspired his work in later life. In New Jersey, he began private lessons at the age of fourteen and, after high school, he attended the Art Students League in New York and studied physics at Haverford College. Spending much time in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hulings soaked up the realist and Impressionist paintings. Preferring easel painting to commercial illustration, he eventually left the field to become a full-time painter. Hulings won the National Academy of Western Art's Prix de West award in 1973; however, most of his work is of a non-Western nature and dominated by the villages, market places, and rustic settings of Europe, New Mexico and Mexico.

Literature: Peggy & Harold Samuels, Contemporary Western Artists, Southwest Art Publishing, 1982