Once more the star in the night. You get to see back-to-back treatments of the same subject ... in different years.
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Showing posts with label Ralph Hulett Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ralph Hulett Christmas. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Ralph Hulett's Christmas!
Once more the star in the night. You get to see back-to-back treatments of the same subject ... in different years.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 15
A domed cathedral, european-style fountain and foreground autumn leaves. Hulett didn't paint domed churches that often, but he uses it here to good effect.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 14
A snowy New England winter's night, painted in the middle 1950s. Hulett went back to these shapes, colors and design themes many times over the years.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 13
A snowy winterscape (from original artwork a tad worse for wear). The view looks remarkably like Angeles National Forest, the huge forest preserve above Los Angeles, and which loomed above our house in La Crescenta ...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 12
Christmas in the American Southwest, a continuing Hulett theme. You will note the Yucca plant, of the type shown in the the "Three Wise Men" card down below.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 11
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 10
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 9
Two different types of pine trees ... covered in snow. (From the late fifties.)
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 8
A cityscape card* from the early 1960s ...
This one has a touch of the Peregoy-Ken Anderson styling from 101 Dalmations, on which Hulett did extensive production work.
* Just this evening we came across a stash of card designs we haven't run. So, assuming Steve Hulett is still here in years to come, we could be able to run them. Click here to read entire post
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 7
Friday, December 07, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 6
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 5
Monday, December 03, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 4
Yet another of Hulett's Siamese cat cards (of which there were several.)
This card is from the fifties, but it isn't inspired by Lady and the Tramp (on which Hulett worked.) The Hulett family had a couple of Siamese cats as pets, which is where these designs come from.
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Saturday, December 01, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 3
Yet another landscape card; also from the sixties. A different kind of card from the ordinary, with unordinary colors.
Most of the Hulett Christmas cards were published and sold by card companies named "California Artists" or "Designers Showcase." In the time he painted them, the cards were mounted in fat "Christmas Albums" and put into upscale department stores. Customers would thumb through the albums and select the cards they wanted. Boxes of cards would be delivered to them.
Some years Mr. Hulett would do a "painting demonstration" tour of larger department stores in various cities, and paint a sample card for customers.
Back in these old times, artists received royalties for their cards, and made pretty good money. It's a Christmas card sales network that has largely vanished today.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 2
And here is your landscape-type card. Wise men in the sandy mideast, but with plants more likely to be found in the deserts of the southwest United States than the holy land.
But then, Hulett is going for style and composition here, not geographical correctness. (This card design was from the mid-1960s.)
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 1
Another holiday season, another round of Ralph Hulett Christmas cards.
For those new to the blog, Ralph Hulett was business representative Steve Hulett's father. He worked at Disney Animation from 1938 (when it was on Hyperion) to 1974, when he passed away.
The senior Hulett painted backgrounds for Disney animated shorts and features from 1943 to 1974. From 1949 to the time of his death, he also painted Christmas card designs, of which the above is a specimen from the 1960s. (Hulett painted various types of cards: winter landscapes, "character" cards, and still lifes.)
As you can see, he used various kinds of paint.
Anyway, we're getting down to the last of the new images. Prolific as Mr. Hulett was, he painted only so many Christmas cards.
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
Happy New Year! The last day of Ralph Hulett’s Christmas
Click here to read entire postYet another "real life" card, with an artistic rendering of the family Siamese cats.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
The nineteenth day of Ralph Hulett’s Christmas
Click here to read entire postAnother card drawn from life. The family had a Christmas heirloom much like the one shown here. (Flesh and blood angels not included.)
Friday, December 30, 2011
The eighteenth day of Ralph Hulett’s Christmas
Click here to read entire postMore heavily laden pine trees, of the type found in the Sierra Nevada.
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