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John Heliker

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John Edward Heliker (1909 - 2000) was active/lived in New York.  John Heliker is known for Non ob, modernist-leaning landscape, still life.

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 Born in Yonkers, New York, John Heliker was originally a Cubist painter working with shattered planes of color, and then he evolved into a realist with loose modernist brushwork and bright color in the painting of interiors and the Maine coast.

He studied at the Art Students League from 1927 to 1929 and showed early interest in precise arrangements of forms and formal relationships. Between 1948 and 1958, he made several trips to Italy, which influenced complexity in his works.

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951. In 1958, Heliker took part in a conference on the visual arts at the University of Illinois. He taught at three New York City institutions, including Columbia University, from 1950-1977, the Art Students League, and Parsons.

In 1965, Heliker was a founding member of the New York Studio School with Mercedes Matter, Alex Katz, Leland Bell, Philip Guston and Nicholas Carone. He became an Associate of the National Academy of Design, New York City, i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2741 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for John Heliker


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Style
  • Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
  • Abstraction, Abstract
  • Cubism, Cubist
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
  • Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Interior Scenes
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Self-Portrait
  • Still Life
Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
  • Boardman Robinson
  • Kenneth Hayes Miller
  • Kimon Nicolaides
  • Thomas Hart Benton
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
  • Columbia University Art Department, Teacher
  • Parsons, The New School for Design, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Edith and Milton Lowenthal
  • Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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