Dreamer and Dreams

John Hultberg

1963

This lithograph turns a dream's interior into a fragmented, painterly landscape of gestural blacks and layered grays, using printmaking to evoke the roaming mind of a dreamer.

You first notice a collage-like field of windowlike shapes—two pale circular openings at left and skewed, shadowy compartments to the right—where smeared inks, splattered droplets, and sharp diagonals carve an ambiguous, cinematic space that feels both architectural and psychological.

Made in 1963, the print exemplifies Hultberg's fusion of Surrealist imagery and Abstract Expressionist energy, pushing lithography beyond precise reproduction toward the immediacy and scale of painting to map inner, dreamlike states.

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Art Terms

Lithography Print Abstract Expressionism Surrealism Gestural Abstraction Monochrome

Exhibitions

Dream/Reality/Dream

1977

Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

1987

American Prints of the 20th Century

1954

Committed to Print

1988