Clark Hulings (1922-2011) Oil on canvas painting of a boy standing watch next to a burro in an alley while a man walks down the cobblestone street. It is signed Hulings and dated 1974. Measures 12" x 18" (Framed 18.5" x 24") Provenance: From a Palm Beach, Florida estate. Hulgins was an American realist painter. He was born in Florida and raised in New Jersey. Clark also lived in Spain, New York, Louisiana, and throughout Europe before settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1970s. The travels did much to influence his keen eye for people in the state of accomplishing daily tasks.His training as an artist began as a teenager with Sigismund Ivanowsky and George Bridgman, and concluded at the Art Students League of New York with Frank Reilly. Clark came back to the League to give a lecture in 2007.After early careers in portraiture and illustration, he devoted himself to easel painting. A modern genre painter, he is best known for his elaborate European and Mexican market and street scenes, his still lifes of roses and his depictions of donkeys. Hulings’ art has been eagerly sought after by collectors, museums and corporations.