"Charivari" circa 1952 (Private Collection)

"All the Houses" circa 1952 (Private Collection)

"Rainy Day" 1947

"Elevated Railroad, Looking towards Lower Manhattan" 1947

  The Early Years

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Orville Bulman was a regionalist and social realist painter.  Besides his well known Haitian and Bahamian views, his early paintings reflected Midwestern, New York and Florida images.

"Delilah and the Preacher Samson" 1952 (Private Collection)

"Waiting for Ben West" 1957 (Private Collection)

"Big Booksie"  1952  (Bulman Family Photographs)

"Owl Dinette" c.1952  (Bulman Family Photographs)

"Little Ocean" Circa 1951 (Bulman Family Photographs)

"His work is charming." Newsweek, 1952