Kent Ullberg (b. 1945) Silver Ghosts

Lot 89

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United States

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Lot Description

Kent Ullberg (b. 1945)
Silver Ghosts,
signed "© Ullberg" on base
stainless steel, 14 by 7 by 17 in.
edition 10 of 50

Kent Ullberg is the 2016 Featured Artist for The Bonefish and Tarpon Trust. 50% of the proceeds from the sale of "Silver Ghosts" will go directly to BTT, whose mission is to conserve and enhance global bonefish, tarpon, and permit fisheries and their environments through stewardship, research, education, and advocacy. The BTT serves as a repository for information on the life history of these species and works internationally with anglers, guides, scientists, regulators, and the public to nurture and enhance fish populations.

A native of Sweden, Kent Ullberg is recognized as one of the world’s foremost wildlife sculptors. He studied at the Swedish University College of Art in Stockholm and worked at museums in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Africa, and Denver, Colorado. After living in Botswana, Africa, for seven years, he has made his home permanently in the United States where he now lives on Padre Island, Corpus Christi, Texas. He also maintains a studio in Loveland, Colorado.

Ullberg is a member of numerous art organizations and has been honored with many prestigious awards. In 1990 his peers elected him a Full Academician. A selection of his memberships include the National Sculpture Society, the American Society of Marine Art, the Allied Artists of America, Nature in Art, Sandhurst, UK, and the National Academy of Western Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which awarded him the Prix de West, the foremost recognition in Western Art. In 2010 he received the Briscoe Legacy Award.

In October 2008, Kent Ullberg’s work “Silver Ghosts” was awarded the 2008 Environmental Wildlife Award at the 29th Annual Mystic International Marine Art Exhibit at the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. This award acknowledges the importance of preserving the fragile balance within the world’s ecosystem. “Silver Ghosts” was recognized as the work that best depicts marine wildlife in their native habitat.
Kent Ullberg has been a fisherman all his life. Over the years he has had the privilege of exploring the fishing and diving grounds of Cocos Island, Panama, and the Great Barrier Reef, amongst others, with his good friend Dr. Guy Harvey. Ullberg writes, "I will always be attracted to the sea, both as a fisherman and an artist; of all the works I have created at least half of them are marine related.”
Known for his monumental works executed for museums and municipalities across the globe, his Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and his Omaha, Nebraska, installations are the largest bronze wildlife compositions ever done, spanning several city blocks. Both earned him the coveted Henry Hering Medal Award from the National Sculpture Society, New York City. His most recent monumental installation is “Snow-Mastodon,” a life-size bronze Mastodon placed outside the Denver Museum of Nature and Science last September.

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