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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

John Hultberg

Tilted Horizon

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

John Hultberg

1922 - 2005


Tilted Horizon 

signed, titled and dated 1955 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas 

54 by 76 in.

137.2 by 193 cm.

Executed in 1955.

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Schneider, New York (acquired from the above in 1958)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1958 by the present owner

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, John Hultberg: Recent Paintings, March 1956 

Arts Club of Chicago, Society for Contemporary American Art: 17th Annual Exhibition, May - June 1957

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture, January - April 1959

New Mexico, The Roswell Museum and Art Center, Paintings by John Hultberg, April - May 1963


“Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, 1958,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, vol. 26, no.4,  July 1959, pp.15-16, illustrated and p. 20

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed. Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art 1929-1967, New York 1977, p. 315, illustrated