John Hubbard (artist)
| John Hubbard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1931 Ridgefield, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Awards | Jerwood Painting Prize, 1996 |
| Website |
www |
John Hubbard (born 1931) is an American-born abstract impressionist painter who has lived and worked in England for more than 50 years. He won the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1996.[1]
Life
John Hubbard was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1931. He attended Harvard University, and then did three years of military service in Japan. From 1956 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, and also with Hans Hoffman. He visited Rome and travelled in Europe. He married in 1961, and went to live in Dorset.[2]
Career
From 1963 to 1965 Hubbard taught at Camberwell School of Art in London. Hubbard has designed sets and costumes for ballet companies including the Dutch National Ballet and the Royal Ballet, and tapestries for the Said Business School, Oxford and the National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut and at Marlborough Fine Art in London. His work is in public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Yale Center for British Art.[2][3]
References
- ↑ [s.n.] (14 Sep 1996). What is the Jerwood for?. The Telegraph. Accessed September 2013.
- 1 2 John Hubbard (2007). Peter Paul Rubens, A path bordered by trees, Flemish, 17th century: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, no. 2178 ... as seen by John Hubbard. The Fitzwilliam Museum. Accessed September 2013.
- ↑ [s.n.] (2013). Littoral: John Hubbard in Context. The George Washington University: The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery. Accessed September 2013.
External links
Artist's website and visual database of his work
Singing Paint - an American Artist in Dorset (2013). Film produced for his 2013 Washington exhibition
BBC Your Paintings. Paintings by John Hubbard in the national collection.