Background
Clifford Ulp was born in Olean, New York in 1885.
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Clifford Ulp
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He attended Rochester’s East High School. He continued his studies at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, or what is now known as Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated in 1908. He also attended the Art Students League in New York City on scholarship.
Career
After studying at the Art Students League, Ulp returned to Rochester where he focused his work on illustration and advertising until 1913 when Rochester Institute of Technology hired him to teach illustration and drawing. He continued teaching there for the next 39 years. During the early years of his Rochester Institute of Technology career, Ulp"s work could be frequently found in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman magazines.
During this time he introduced the use of motion pictures in a course called Models in Motion.
He helped bring nature motifs indoors through the use of color slides. He served as director until his retirement in 1952.
He was a popular public speaker and well-known figure in Rochester during the 1920s and early 1930s. He served as vice president of the Rochester Art Club from 1926 to 1927 and later served as president from 1927 to 1932.
He served on the board of managers for the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery from 1928 to 1952.
Although he worked many late nights at his 3rd floor studio he was still well known for being a family manitoba Ulp died in 1958 at the age of 72.
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