Edward Buk Ulreich (February 12, 1884 – July 17, 1966) was an American artist. Born in

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, his work includes murals at the United States Courthouse (Tallahassee, Florida, 1936) completed in 1939. His work is also at the

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. The U.S. Courthouse in Tallahassee's main lobby is decorated with eight murals by Ulreich illustrating scenes from Florida's history. The murals were funded by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a

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program that commissioned artists. Ulreich won a competition to paint the murals, which he completed in 1939. He also painted Southwestern motifs and worked as an illustrator.

History

Born in

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in Austria-Hungary in 1889 Ulreich came to

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with his family as a baby. He studied under Mlle F. Blumberg and at the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as a

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on the

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Indian reservation in Arizona. He sent a painting to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and won a scholarship to the school. In the 1930s Ulreich worked for the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

(WPA). He travelled the Southwestern United States and did many horse scenes. He and his wife Nura also did illustration work, including for children's books. He also taught. He was in Europe for several months before returning to New York in 1915 and serving in the U.S. Army. After

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he did his first murals for Denishawn Studios in California and then painted church murals, wall hangings and did marble mosaics for the

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's ''Century of Progress'' exhibition. He died in San Francisco in 1966 and is buried at the

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Work

* ''Advance Guard of the West'' (1940) * Eight murals depicting Florida history at the Old Post Office in Tallahassee, Florida *''Arizona Cowboys'' (1947) at the Tate Museum of ArtArizona Cowboys
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