Born in Yonkers, New York, John Heliker was originally a Cubist painter working with shattered planes of color, and then he evolved into a realist with loose modernist brushwork and bright color in the painting of interiors and the Maine coast.
He studied at the Art Students League from 1927 to 1929 and showed early interest in precise arrangements of forms and formal relationships. Between 1948 and 1958, he made several trips to Italy, which influenced complexity in his works.
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