Oil on canvas

Signed LR, dated 1957, labels verso

Image Size: 40" W x 25" H

Frame Size: 44-1/2" W x 29-1/2" H

Provenance: Purchased from Treadway Toomey Gallery, Oak Park, IL, May 7, 2006

The collection of Senator William Benton

Originally a Cubist painter working with shattered planes of color, he evolved into a realist with loose modernist brushwork and bright color in the painting of interiors and the Maine coast. In 1965, Heliker was a founding member of the New York Studio School with Mercedes Matter, Alex Katz, Leland Bell, Philip Guston and Nicholas Carone. Exhibited: Whitney Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, The World. Exposition: Suita Osaka Japan, Encyclopaedia Britannica Pavillion, American Park, 1970.