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Walter Kuhlman
The Sausalito Vanguard St. Paul, Minnesota, 1918. The son of Danish immigrants, Walter Kuhlman carries the influence of his heritage from the American Midwest to the coastal winds of Northern California. His early training at the St. Paul School of Art under Cameron Booth provides a foundation that soon expands toward Europe and the radical shifts of the mid-century. After a period as a medical illustrator for the U.S. Navy during World
War II, Kuhlman arrives at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947. The atmosphere is electric. Under the influence of faculty like Clyfford Still, he enters a world where abstraction is the primary language. The late 1940s see the formation of a specific, localized movement. Alongside Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, John Hultberg, James Budd Dixon, and George Stillman, Kuhlman becomes part of the Sausalito Six. They share studi…