American painter John Heliker - End of the lake - watercolor
John Edward Heliker (1909-2000)
Born: 1909, Yonkers, New York, United States.
Died: 22 February 2000, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States.
Provenance: Kraushaar Galleries, New York
John Heliker studied painting at the Art Students League from 1927-’29. Heliker taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and was a Professor of Art at Columbia University for twenty-seven years. His work was exhibited nationally in the major survey exhibitions. 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, and his work toured Europe through USIA in the 1950’s and was featured at the Worlds Fair in Brussels in 1958 and in Osaka in 1969.
Framed in original frame behind glass