John Heliker, Self Portrait, drawing on paper, framed with Kraushaar Gallery Label verso

JOHN HELIKER, 1909- 2000

SELF PORTRAIT, 1991

Rare find:

Self portrait done in charcoal pencil by distinguished American artist John Heliker. (read biography below). Hand signed on the recto (front).  This work is framed - bears the label of the legendary KRAUSHAAR GALLERIES on the verso. (see information below)

Image size: 13 inches by 10 inches; overall 18 1/2 inches by 14 1/2 inches

Link to New York Times obituary on Heliker - Click HERE or below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/28/arts/john-heliker-91-versatile-painter-and-teacher.html

HELIKER BIOGRAPHY BELOW:

JOHN HELIKER was a Professor of Art at Columbia University for twenty-seven years. He has also taught at the 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 Jack with a mid-career retrospective in 1968, and he has been included in numerous Whitney Museum annuals and biennials. He was represented at the Bicentennial Exhibition AMERICA: 1976 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC that traveled through the country, and his work toured Europe through USIA in the 1950’s and was featured at the World’s Fair in Brussels in 1958 and in Osaka in 1969.

Among the artist’s many awards are the Prix de Rome(1948), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1951), three Ford Foundation Purchase awards, and numerous awards from the National Academy of Design including the Benjamin Altman prizes for Landscape, Figure and Still Life.

Heliker was elected a member of the National Institute for Arts and Letters in 1969 and was an Academician of the National Academy of Design. 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 Honorary Doctorates of  Fine Arts from Colby College, Maine and from Bard College, New York. His works are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Philadelphia Museum and the Whitney Museum, among many others. In Maine alone, his works are in The Farnsworth Art Museum, The Portland Museum, The Ogunquit Museum and in the museums at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

KRAUSHAAR GALLERIES:

http://www.kraushaargalleries.com/history

Signature: Hand signed on the recto.

Provenance: This work is framed - bears the KRAUSHAAR GALLERIES label on the verso.