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John Heliker

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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Facts about John Heliker

   Publications  Book References:  64
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Heliker
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Reviews October 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions December 2000 Editors, Art in America Yes
American Art Review On Island: A Century of Continuity October 2000 McAvoy, Suzette Lane No
64 Book References for John Heliker
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Moure, Nancy Dustin Publications in California Art No. 11 Index to California Art Exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1972 0 No
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 McAvoy, Suzette Lane On Island: A Century of Continuity and Change 58 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1986 Deeds, Daphne Anderson Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)
298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
284 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)
28 Yes
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Shalkop, Robert L A Show of Color 100 Years of Painting/Pike's Peak Region
(Exhibition catalog)
94 No
1968 Goodrich, Lloyd/P Mandel John Heliker
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1968 Kent, Norman (editor) Drawings by American Artists 127 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)
52 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1963 Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953 178 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1956 Arizona State College Arizona State College Collection American Art 108 No
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1955 Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1954 Leeper, John Palmer Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute/Selective Catalogue 92 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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