JOHN HULTBERG (1922 – 2005). Artist, oil paintings, abstract expressionist.

John Hultberg paintings range from his earlier abstract expressionist paintings to his later surrealist landscape paintings. John Hultberg paintings have been exhibited in many museums and group exhibitions (see list below).

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 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 6^th 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 John Hultberg and his wife and fellow artist Lynne Drexler would return to San Francisco and John would teach at the San Francisco Art Institute for a couple of years before traveling back east to live in Maine in 1971. Hultberg would frequently travel between Maine and New York and taught in New York City at Art Students League from 1990 until he died 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
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 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum
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, The
1960    Hinkhouse, F M.*  John Hultberg
1957    Brooklyn Museum.*  Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
1956    6^th Annual Exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
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, NY
1956    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:
6^th 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
Herskovic, Marika.  New York School Abstract Expressionists, Artists Choice by Artists
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