Eugene-Paul Ullman
1877-1953

Eugene-Paul Ullman was born in New York in 1877; his parents were German immigrants.

Ullman studied with William Merrit chase at the Académie Julian in Paris beginning in 1899. He also studied with Chase in Long Island New York. He painted a life size portrait of Chase, which was purchased by the French government for the Musée de Luxembourg. Chase introduced him to John Singer Sargent, and he attended classes for a short time in the atelier James Whistler.

Ullman exhibited extensively in the United States, even though he spent most of most of his career in France. He exhibited in Boston in 1902, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art regularly from 1902 to 1945; he won a gold medal in 1906. He exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery four times, he exhibited at the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, the 1904 Saint Louis World’s Fair where he won a bronze medal, and the Carnegie Institute. He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Chicago Art Institute.

Ullman also had exhibitions in Paris, London and Berlin. He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris, he later resigned in protest of their policy toward the avant-garde artists of the younger generation

He was associated with Gertrude Stein who introduced him the literary figures like Alfred Maurer, Booth Tarkington, and Arnold Bennett.

During the 1940’s, Ullman and his family lived in Westport, Connecticut, but they returned to France in 1949, and the he remained there until his death in 1953 at the age of 76.

Ullman’s paintings are elegant and rich with tradition of his teachers. In his nudes and portraits his color palette and technique is that of the Postimpressionists.

Ullman’s paintings are in museums in the United States including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and in France at Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Americaine at Château Blérancourt, near Paris.