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Lillian Juhlin (Julie Ripley-Mandl) Lillian Juhlin, “Juhlin R” (October 8, 1912-December 15, 2011) an American Impressionist, was one of Tucson’s Early Modern artists. Maurice Grossman, Father of the Tucson Arts, defines The Moderns: “A handful of innovators, they danced on the edge and dared to get off the safe road and cleave their imprint on a changing community. They brought the bold new post-war directions in American art, and the marks they left are still part of the rich history, the tapestry that is Tucson culture today.” (1999 University of Arizona Early Modern Artists of Tucson Exposition) Active in oil, watercolor, collage and sculpture, ranging stylistically from Impressionist landscapes to iconic graphics, from 1956 to 2000. Juhlin rose to international eminence with her prize-winning woodcuts for print. As a child of seven, Juhlin lost her Swedish-immigrant mother to the 1918 flu pandemic. Her formal education ended after the fifth grade, when she was required to work. Fortune smiled when, at age 14, a local family employed her as nanny to their one child, and this family provided some of the nurturing and education Julie had missed at home. At the inception of the Great Depression, Juhlin married, had a daughter, but divorced after two years. Her child’s breathing problems necessitated their relocation to the desert community of Tucson, AZ, by 1937. So it was that another window of opportunity opened when a neighbor whose work she came to admire, the reclusive artist Charles O. Golden, challenged her to paint. And paint she did. Unfortunately, Juhlin lost touch with her mentor at the time she remarried and moved away. Husband Robert L. Ripley encouraged her to study art, then promoted her work among his furniture clients. Sadly, in 1959, in the process of renovating their Sam-Hughes area guesthouse as a studio for her, he suffered a heart attack and died. His sudden death changed everything. Grief-stricken, with three preteens to rear, forced to work, Juhlin set aside active art, but her training and creative eye enhanced the home-décor work she found. After Bernhard Morris Mandl, a long-standing family friend, lost his wife, he courted then married Juhlin in 1963. He encouraged her to resume sculpting, oil painting and art study. She attended workshops with prominent artists of Arizona and New Mexico as well as formal classes at the University of Arizona. Juhlin’s work first appeared in the Cooperstown Art Association 33rd Annual Art Exhibition 1968. It was 1974 when Juhlin stopped by to visit Charles Golden, and found him ill, alone and in dire conditions. She brought him food and supplies, and commissioned him to paint her portrait helping him financially at that time in his life. After he died, Juhlin purchased his art studio and remaining art from the estate, hoping to celebrate his genius and display his work, to inspire students as she had been by Golden. Because her mentor had not pursued his own recognition, Juhlin, in 2001, successfully showed the works of this distinguished artist and thereby established Charles O. Golden’s reputation in the archives of fine art. Today, Juhlin is recognized as an active artist of the Tucson Early Modern Art Movement. � Bibliography 1967 1st place at Arizona State Fair exhibition for woodcut block prints. 1968 Honorable mention at the Arizona Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, for her woodcut block prints. 1968 Cooperstown Art Association 33rd Annual Exhibition. Juhlin’s woodcuts win attention abroad. 1968 Paris, France. La Revue Moderne. Juhlin garners glowing reviews as a Modern Artist “working from a complete foundation of sculpture, painting, graphics and engraving, using the most classic media, as well as those of today.” 1975 Paris, France. Juhlin was selected for an "American Painter in Paris" exhibit, C.I.P. Palais Des Congres 1980 Sonora, Mexico. Juhlin Mandl o el Dominio del Arte: Exposicion de Oleos y Esculturas, Hermosillo, Sonora: Sabado lo. De Marzo de 1980 1983, August 25 – September 18 Hall of Fame Gallery, Creative Expressions in Painting, Lillian Juhlin Mandl  University of Arizona Campus. 1987 Artists Of Arizona Volume I, Mountain Productions of Texas, Inc. P.O. Box 54, Alto, NM 88312, Pgs. 81-82

Who's Who in World of Women National League of American Pen Women Signature member of the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Charter member of Women in the Arts Museum in Washington, D.C.

1990, October 2 Palace de Monaco received and honored the painting Juhlin did on the death of Princess Grace of Monaco 1999 Tucson’s Early Moderns, 1945-1965, exhibition of The University of Arizona Museum of Art �