John Philip Hultberg
American, 1922 - 2005
JOHN PHILIP HULTBERG (1922 - 2005). Abstract Expressionist Painter, Lithography. John Hultberg was born in 1922 in Berkeley, California. Hultberg attended Fresno State College graduating in 1943 prior to entering World War II where he became a Navy lieutenant and served until 1946. After the war and with the assistance of the G.I. Bill he attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). His teachers at the California School of Fine Arts included Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and he was friends with Richard Diebenkorn who was also a mentor. In 1948 Hultberg along with James Budd Dixon, Walter Kuhlman, Frank Lobdell and George Stillman produced a portfolio of 17 lithographs which has been acknowledged as a landmark in Abstract Expressionist printmaking and the six artists became known as, “The Sausalito Six”. In 1949 Hultberg moved to New York City and attended the Art Students League until 1951. A frequent traveler, he traveled to Paris in 1954 and while living there he received the Guggenheim Fellowship and continued to live in Europe until 1956. In 1956 Hultberg exhibited at the 6th Annual Exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York. In 1963 Hultberg received the Ford Foundation fellowship to work at Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles. In 1963 Hultberg would return to San Francisco to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute for a couple of years before traveling back east to live in Maine in 1971. Hultberg would travel frequently between Maine and New York and taught in New York City at Art Students League from 1990 until his death in 2005. Literature: 2005 AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor). The Artists Bluebook 2005 Hultberg, John. Sole Witness 2005 Davenport, Ray. Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor). Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 2004 Goldberg, Ira. The Art Students League of New York, 2004-2005 2000 Herskovic, Marika. New York School Abstract Expressionists, Artists by Choice 1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor). Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, 3 volumes 1999 Steiner, Raymond J. The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 1997 Marquis. Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1996 Landauer, Susan*. The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism 1995 Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward). Monhegan The Artists' Island 1995 Nash, Steven A. Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 1993 Bowker R R. Who's Who in American Art-1993-1994 20th Edition 1992 National Gallery of Art. American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue 1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor).* Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy. The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 1987 Cummings, Paul. Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor). Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1986 Jaques Cattell Press. Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1985 Rand, Harry.* John Hultberg Painter of the In-Between 1953-84 1985 Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina. The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds. Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff.* American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist 1981 Osborne, Harold. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 1981 Newark Museum. American Art in the Newark. Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel. Bequest Selections and Related Works 1977 Barr, Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 1976 San Francisco Museum. Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California - The Modern Era 1976 Jaques Cattell Press. Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 1975 Chambers, Bruce W. American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 1975 Editor, Smithsonian. Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 1974 Baur, John I H. Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon. Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott. An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 1968 University of Oklahoma.* East Coast-West Coast Paintings 1967 Hirsch, Richard.* Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh. Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.* Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial 1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness. Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 1962 Schaad, Bentley. The Realm of Contemporary Still Life Painting 1961 Dorra, Henri. American Muse, The1960 Hinkhouse, F M.* John Hultberg 1957 Brooklyn Museum.* Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 1956 Kuh, Katherine.* American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956) Selected One Person Exhibitions: 1949 Contemporary Gallery, Sausalito, CA 1953 Korman Gallery, New York City, NY 1954 Fresno State College, Fresno, CA 1955 Through 1972 at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, NY1956 Galleria Numero, Florence, Italy 1956 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England 1957 Galerie Rive, Droite, Paris 1957 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 1958 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1958 Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1958 Galleria Numero, Florence, Italy 1959 Through 1970 at the Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France 1959 Galleria dell Ariete, Milan, Italy 1959 Main Street Gallery, Chicago, IL 1960 Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL 1960 Galleria Galatea, Turin, Italy 1960 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA 1960 Through 1964 at the Ester Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1961 Through 1965 at the Piccadilly Gallery, London 1961 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1962 The Museum of Malmo, Malmo, Sweden 1963 David Anderson Gallery, New York City, NY 1963 Through 1974 at the David Anderson Gallery, Paris, France 1963 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico 1964 Through 1966 at the Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris 1965 La Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland 1967 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii 1968 American Cultural Center, Paris 1968 Southhampton College, Southampton, New York 1987 Through 1989 at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City 1989 University of Southern Maine, Portland 1990 The Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City, NY 1992 Through to 1993 at Elaine Wechsler, New York City, NY 1994 Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City, NY Museums and Group Exhibitions: 6th Annual Exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York, NY Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase College, Purchase, NY Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA), San Francisco, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Saint Francis College, Loretto, PA The Cummer Museum Of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Sources: Wikipedi.org Landauer, Susan*. The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism David Carlson, Carlson Gallery www.AskART.com
John Hultberg Paintings & Art
John Hultberg Paintings & Art
