John Heliker Furniture

American, 1909-2000

Determined to become an artist, Heliker dropped out of high school to copy paintings at the Metropolitan Museum. From 1927 until 1929 he studied with Kimon Nicolaides, Thomas Hart Benton, and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students League. After several years away Heliker returned to New York in the 1930s and in 1947 joined the faculty at Columbia University where he taught until his retirement. Heliker won a Prix de Rome in 1948 and spent the next five summers in Italy. At this time larger strokes and freer designs began replacing the structural, Cézannesque abstractions that occupied him in the 1940s and early 1950s. A painter of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, Heliker chooses traditional subject matter for his semi-abstract, painterly compositions. John Heliker was one of the premier landscape and figurative paintings of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born in Yonkers, New York when it was still farm country and, after high school, studied painting at the Art Students from 1927-1929. Heliker had three one-person shows at the Maynard Walker Gallery in New York, the first in 1936, and in the late 1930s was making drawings for the New Masses and joined the easel division of the WPA Federal Art Project. When Maynard Walker Gallery closed Heliker began his association with Kraushaar Galleries that continues with his estate to this day. Heliker was a Professor of Art at Columbia University for twenty-seven years. He also taught at the Colorado Springs Fine arts Center, Art Students League, the New York Studio School (he was a founding faculty member), and in the MFA Painting Program at Parsons School of Design. His work was exhibited nationally in the major survey exhibitions of the Carnegie Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art’s Abstract Painting in America, and many others. The Whitney Museum of American Art honored Heliker with a mid-career retrospective in 1968, and he has been included in numerous Whitney Museum annuals and biennials. Heliker's work toured Europe in the 1950's through the USIA, and he was a featured artist at the World's Fair in Brussels in 1958 and in Osaka in 1969. He was represented at the Bicentennial Exhibition AMERICA: 1976 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, which traveled through the country. Heliker was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1969. From the American Academy of Arts and Letters he won a Gold Medal for Merit and a Purchase award and grant in 1967. The artist was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Colby College, Maine and from Bard College, New York. He worked and lived in New York and on the coast of Maine, where he painted since the 1950's.

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Creator: John Heliker

"Wild Roses" Framed Oil on Masonite Panel, by John Heliker, American

By John Heliker

Located in valatie, NY

Framed Oil "Wild Roses" on Masonite Panel, by John Heliker, American (1909-2000). Retains Gallery Label from Kraushaar Galleries, New York. Kraushaar Galleries was founded in 1885 and is still in business. Determined to become an artist, Heliker dropped out of high school to copy paintings...

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1970s American Vintage John Heliker Furniture

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Wood, Masonite

"Wild Roses" Framed Oil on Masonite Panel, by John Heliker, American

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19th Century European Antique John Heliker Furniture

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Paint, Canvas

Emmanuel Joseph Lauret, Boat on the Wild Sea, Oil on Canvas, Framed

H 19.89 in W 25.6 in D 1.78 in

Nicholas Berger Fine Oil on Panel, "Island Roses"

Located in Bridgeport, CT

A seaside house on the water with rose bushes on the grounds and a flag blowing in the wind. Sailboats are on the water in the background. Presented in a gilt frame. Signed lower ri...

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21st Century and Contemporary American American Classical John Heliker Furniture

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Canvas

Nicholas Berger Fine Oil on Panel, "Island Roses"

H 10 in W 18.38 in D 0.75 in

Oil on Masonite Painting by Ralph Gagnon

By Ralph Gagnon

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This still life painting is by the American artist Ralph Gagnon and dates to 1954. Here the artist has combined items ranging from an Egyptian sphinx, books, lemons and apples in int...

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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern John Heliker Furniture

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Masonite, Paint

Oil on Masonite Painting by Ralph Gagnon

H 27 in W 33 in D 1 in

Robert Emmett Grady Oil on Masonite Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Original Robert Emmet Grady oil on masonite painting. Rich blue layers with grey, black, rust, and touch of green. Robert E. Grady was born in Boston and attended schools in Arlingto...

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Late 20th Century American John Heliker Furniture

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Masonite

Robert Emmett Grady Oil on Masonite Painting

H 15.5 in W 30.5 in D 1 in

H 22.5 in W 27 in D 1 in

H 15.75 in W 21.88 in D 1.75 in

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