John edward heliker biography of mahatma
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John Edward Heliker
American
(Yonkers, New York, - , Bar Harbor, Maine)
John Heliker was born in Yonkers, New York on January 16, (1) His father, John Edward Heliker, was a stonemason and the descendant of Dutch farmers; his mother, Jane MacLaughlin, was Scottish-American.
John edward heliker biography of mahatma
Heliker was raised on a farm in upstate New York. In , at the age of 14, he decided to leave school and pursue his interest in art so he began commuting daily to New York to study and copy paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
During one of these sessions he met Arshile Gorky who introduced him to the work of Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne, among others.
In , Heliker made his first trip to the Maine coast to attend art school at Boothbay Harbor, which was run by a teacher from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Two years later, he began studying at the Art Students League in New York with Kimon Nicolaides who believed that painting was an extension of drawing, a philosophy that Heliker took to heart.