NICHOLAS ANGELO
FINE ART

Edward Buk Ulreich, listed WPA master. This is a light-hearted, art deco painting with wonderful color surrounding nude figures. Edward Ulreich was born in Koseg, Austria-Hungary in 1889. His family migrated to the United States and settled in Kansas City, Missouri when he was 6 months old. Ulreich studied at the Kansas City Art Institute for 4 years. After finishing at KCAI he worked as a cowboy on a ranch on an Apache Indian reservation in Arizona. Here he developed a liking for Indian subjects in his work, and sent a painting to the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy. The painting won him a 4-year scholarship to study there.

Ulreich also won various prizes. He spent 8 months in Europe, returning to New York in 1915, where he worked a year before spending time in the army. He executed his first murals at Denishawn Studios in California after World War I. He then painted church murals, wall hangings and did marble mosaics for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair’s "Century of Progress" Exhibition. Ulreich exhibited in Paris and Vienna, and Lived in New York City and San Francisco (1962), where he died at the age of 77 in 1966. His colleague and dealer was artist Niel Lovisco (lived 1900-1981). The Lovisco papers for 1942-1989 are preserved in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Ulreich is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, Davenport’s Art Reference and Price Guide, (misspelled as "Ulrich" in Davenport’s), Dawdy’s "Artists of the American West"; Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters; Samuels’ "The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West," and numerous other publications.

A fine addition to your collection of American miniatures.