John Himmelfarb (born 1946) is an American artist, known for idiosyncratic, yet modernist-based work across many media.[1] Diverse influences ranging from Miró, Matisse and Picasso to Dubuffet, New York school artists like de Kooning, Guston, and Pop artists inform his work, described by critics and curators as chaotically complex and tightly constructed.[2][3][4] He often employs energetic, gestural line, dense patterns of accumulated shapes, and fluid movement between figuration and abstraction, using strategies of concealment and revelation to create a sense of meaning that is both playful and elusive.[5][6][7] His work is also unified by "a circulating library" of motifs and organizing structures, such as geographic and urban mapping, abstracted natural and industrial forms, and language systems.[8][9] Assessing him at mid-career, New Art Examiner’s Andy Argy wrote "Himmelfarb’s art is original […] His unabashed immersion in graphic art, emphasizing drawing over painting, has earned him an important place among artists who make drawings into major aesthetic statements."[10] Himmelfarb next turned to monumental paintings that critic Christopher Moore called joyful, luminous, and frenetic pyrotechnical displays.[11] In 2006, he began to devote considerable studio time to sculpture that curator Gregg Hertzlieb described as an expression of the "human need for play and (our) enduring fascination with metamorphosis and transformation."[12]
Himmelfarb has an extensive exhibition history, notably at the Terry Dintenfass and Luise Ross galleries (New York), Jean Albano Gallery (Chicago), Chicago Cultural Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Eskenazi Museum of Art (Indiana University, Bloomington), Brooklyn Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago. His work sits in more than fifty public collections in the US and abroad, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Museum, and High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He has been recognized with a Yaddo Fellowship and an Arts/Industry Residency at Kohler, Wisconsin, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Illinois Arts Council.[13] Himmelfarb works and lives in Chicago and Spring Green, Wisconsin, with his wife, Molly Day.
^Bonesteel, Michael. "Building on Literature, Music, and Modernism: The Prints of John Himmelfarb," In The Prints of John Himmelfarb: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1967- 2004, by Michael Bonesteel and Linda K. Kramer, Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2005.
^Murman, Lydia. "John Himmelfarb," New Art Examiner, October 1982, p. 72.
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as Grace "Amazing Grace" Dawn Luker as Gladys Harvey Miller as Harvey Himmelfarb Enid Saunders as Eleanor St. Denis Alistair MacDuff as Malcolm Sinclair...
including gifts to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Milton Friedman, Walter E. Williams, Julian Lincoln Simon and Mary Lefkowitz, and called John Templeton Jr. a "sugar...
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foundation of a free society by rejecting natural rights. Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote "The principle of the greatest happiness of the greatest number...
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views of angels at Qumran and the calendar are wrong. Professor Martha Himmelfarb finds Elior's work "simply untenable", stating that Elior creates tenuous...
totalitarian states. In the late 1960s, the American historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, who had published The Haunted House of Jeremy Bentham in 1965, was at...
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debate with Adrian Johns in the American Historical Review over the degree to which printing was necessarily an agent of change or, as Johns argued, a vehicle...
Alexander McCall Smith, Victor Davis Hanson, Harvey Mansfield, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Penelope Fitzgerald, Allan Bloom, and Jay Nordlinger. In its first issue...
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that influenced the Apocalypse of Peter. Later scholarship by Martha Himmelfarb and others has emphasized the strong Jewish roots of the Apocalypse of...
2007. "Welcome to Our Historic Windmill", (Brochure), Village of Dwight. Himmelfarb, Ben. “Local History: Addicts & Addiction Pt. 1: The Keeley Institute...
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