Lot 194: James Sanford Hulme

SKYLINE FROM ASTORIA color etching with aquatint and drypoint, unframed signed, titled & numbered: lower margin in pencil, 24/100

New York (1900-1974)

image size: H8 W13 1/2"*Artist biography: James Sanford Hulme was a painter, print maker and illustrator who lived for many years in White Plains, New York, and completed many serigraphs of his surroundings in Westchester County. Of special interest to him were local landmarks that he worked to preserve. He was born in Oklahoma and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Elmer Forsberg, whose specialty was print media. He also studied at the Grand Central Art School and took etching and lithography from George Bellows and Joseph Pennell. He served on the faculty of the Chicago Art Institute and then went to New York City to work as an illustrator. Commissions included magazines such as Boys' Life" "People's Home Journal" and "Liberty Magazine" and in 1933 Hulme illustrated "Robbers Roost" by Zane Grey (1933). He also did technical illustrations for companies