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Raymond Entorf Huelster Yosemite Park Oil Painting

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Raymond Entorf Huelster Yosemite Park Oil Painting
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Title is Jeffrey Pine Tree Sentinel Dome Yosemite National Park. 21 3/4" by 26 3/4" framed. Raymond Entorf Huelster (1890 - 1955) was active/lived in Illinois, Montana. Raymond Huelster is known for Commercial illustrator-posters, graphics, landscape painting. Raymond E. Huelster, one of three children, was born to August H. and M. Elizabeth (Entorf) Huelster on May 1, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the employment of his father by the Chicago Trust and Savings Bank, the family moved to 339 South Lombard Street in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1904. Huelster began his art education in 1911 at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He later went on to study at the Campbell Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1913 Huelster was awarded seven honorable mentions at the Art Institute. The artist continued to live and work in the Chicago area from his families' home in Oak Park through at least the 1920's. He primarily supported himself as a commercial illustrator. While the artist did exhibit with the Chicago Art Institute in 1918, it was as a graphic designer of posters for the South Shore Railroad in the mid to late 1920's that he is mainly now remembered. These advertising posters, following the popularity of the lithographs of the late 1800's, sought to encourage Chicagoans to use the transit system for more than commuting to work. Operating between Chicago, Michigan City and South Bend, they were meant to depict the appeal and natural beauty of the landscape and thus increase tourism. Nothing further has been located on the artist other than a mention in the obituary of his mother who died March 3, 1948. It stated that she was survived by her children and listed the artist as living in Belgrade, Montana.