Attr. Orville Bulman (1904 - 1978) Oil on canvas painting. Unsigned. Inscribed verso on cardboard. Retaining gallery label verso ("The Art Shop/Bruce Webber Gallery" Lake Worth Florida). Sight Size: 24 x 30 in. Provenance: Private Stuart Florida Collection. Bulman exhibited at New York's Society of Independent Artists in 1937, and for a short time around 1948 exhibited with the Woodstock Art Colony. In the late 1940s he was painting New York City social realist paintings as well as dark, haunting pictures of old barns and churches. He adopted Palm Beach as his second home, exhibited frequent one-man shows at the renowned Worth Avenue Gallery, and traveled extensively throughout Florida, Louisiana and Alabama to paint African-American inspired genre scenes. These poignant paintings of the segregated south (especially the Florida scenes) brought national attention to his art. Newsweek magazine featured two Bulman paintings in 1952, one depicting a colorful Haitian open-air bus bursting at the seams with people, and the other a Florida-inspired scene of a young African-American man on the beach. That year he was invited to show at the prestigious Madison Art Association, and in 1953 he was featured in Life magazine.