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John
Hultberg
Sails, 1961
oil/canvas, 24" x 30" |
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John Hultberg was born in Berkeley, California in 1922. He studied at
the California School of Fine Arts with Clay Spohn, Richard Diebenkorn,
David Park, Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko.
Hultberg made his mark with dramatic, often dark, landscapes and interiors interspersed with recognizable imagery and grounded by an obvious horizon line. His paintings and prints take viewers through a vortex into compartmentalized apocalyptic and alien lands (often inhabited by demons or otherworldly beings), where occasional uncluttered expanses create windows into the unknown.
His works were very prophetic, with pollution and environment issues.
Hulberg's works
are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney
Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of American Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Albright
Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Krannert Art Museum, University
of Illinois, and the University of Arizona.
In Anita Shaposky Gallery:
1987 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC, group show "Works on Paper"
1988 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC, group show "Gallery Artists and Guests"
and solo show "Who is John Hultberg?"
1989 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC, group shows "Drawings", "Recent Work by Artists of the 40's and 50's", and "Group Show"
1990 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC, solo show "John Hultberg", and group show
"The Expanding Imagination"
1991 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC, group show "Works on Paper"
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