John Hultberg was an American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter.
20 Facts About John Hultberg
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John Hultberg had a sister, Helen, and brothers Paul and Dean.
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John Hultberg's teachers included Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and he was a classmate of Richard Diebenkorn, who was a mentor, James Budd Dixon, Walter Kuhlman, Frank Lobdell, and George Stillman, which whom he created a portfolio of 17 lithographs.
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John Hultberg was a contemporary of Clay Spohn and David Park.
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In 1961 John Hultberg met fellow artist Lynne Mapp Drexler at The Artist's Club in New York.
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Drexler and John Hultberg were married and three years traveled and lived in Mexico, the West Coast and Hawaii.
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John Hultberg did not like to live year-round, particularly during the harsh winters, at Monhegan Island and moved to Portland in 1985.
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John Hultberg asked Drexler to come with him, but she decided to stay on the island.
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John Hultberg died of complications of a stroke on April 15,2005, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
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John Hultberg lived on the Upper West Side of the city.
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John Hultberg had a son named Carl R Hultberg and Elaine Wechsler was his agent and partner.
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John Hultberg lived for one year in Paris between 1954 and 1955 and gained a reputation there for his work.
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John Hultberg's paintings were influenced by his time spent at Monhegan Island, and his career thrived after he moved to Portland.
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John Hultberg's work was shown in many galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City and the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, he gave lectures, and in 1985 he had an exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art.
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John Hultberg published the book Sole Witness, Vagabondage, a Paris Odyssey, his poetry and other books.
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John Hultberg taught art in Hawaii and the West Coast.
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John Hultberg was teaching at the Art Students League and was a full-time resident in New York by 1990.
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John Hultberg taught until the week of his death at the Art Students League.
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John Hultberg's work was part of a group show at Aucocisco in Portland in February 2005, at which time he was living in New York City.
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Mr John Hultberg made a name for himself in the 1950s with powerful landscapes, fractured into slabs under ominous horizons; multiplicities of bizarre, huddled shapes; and dense, semiabstract urban wastelands dappled with harsh brilliance and vague human touches.