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Edward Buk Ulreich (February 12, 1884 – July 17, 1966) was an American artist. Born in
Hungary
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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
National Museum of American Illustration
The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI), founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork.
The NMAI is located on Newport, Rhode Island's historic Bellevue Avenue in the mansion V ...
.
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
New Deal
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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
Kőszeg
Kőszeg (german: Güns, ; Slovak: ''Kysak'', sl, Kiseg, hr, Kiseg) is a town in Vas County, Hungary. The town is famous for its historical character.
History
The origins of the only free royal town in the historical garrison county of Vas ...
in Austria-Hungary in 1889 Ulreich came to
Kansas City
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,
Missouri
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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
cowboy
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on the
Apache
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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
World War I
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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
1933 Chicago World's Fair
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's ''Century of Progress'' exhibition. He died in San Francisco in 1966 and is buried at the
Golden Gate National Cemetery
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in
San Bruno
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,
San Mateo County
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,
California
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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
Tate
References
Further reading
Timeline of life events
Ted Shawn photo with an Ulreich mural as background
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1884 births
1966 deaths
American muralists
People from Kőszeg
20th-century American painters
20th-century American male artists
American male painters
Artists from Kansas City, Missouri
Painters from Missouri
American illustrators
Federal Art Project artists
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni
Burials at Golden Gate National Cemetery
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Section of Painting and Sculpture artists