Arthur Mones (American, 1919–1998). John Hultberg, 1993. Gelatin silver print, image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.3 x 26.7 cm);. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wayne and Stephanie Mones at the request of their father, Arthur Mones, 2000.89.50. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.89.50_PS4.jpg)
John Hultberg
(1922–2005)
American
Born: Berkeley, California, USA
John Hultberg studied at the Art Students League with artists Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. In 1952 his work was included in an exhibition of emerging artists, and two years later he won first prize at the Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial. In 1955, Time magazine declared him the "latest darling of modern art." (Jacks, John Hultberg: Painter of the In-Between, 1985) Hultberg exhibited his work all over the world, published many poems, and taught in art schools across the country. His paintings often show surreal landscapes of indistinct objects that evoke stormy wastelands or long-forgotten ruins. (Smithsonian American Art Museum bio https://americanart.si.edu/artist/john-hultberg-2348)
In the mid to late 1950s, Hultberg, along with his colleague and friend Norman Carton, worked at and regularly exhibited at the Martha Jackson Gallery. (Martha Jackson was from Buffalo, New York, and may have been influential in Hultberg exhibiting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His work was later exhibited in the David Anderson Gallery in Buffalo, New York. A gallerist himself, Anderson was Jackson's son.)