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John Pike

John Pike (1911 - 1979) was active/lived in Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts.  John Pike is known for Watercolor sea-landscape painting, illustrator, genre.

John Pike was a student of Charles Hawthorne and Richard Miller.  In 1933, he went to Jamaica, W.I., married and had one son.  After painting, doing advertising for the rum industry, designing stores, nightclubs, theaters and painting murals, the artist returned to this country in 1938 to exhibit.  Since then he has had over fifty four one-man shows.

After pilot training, Mr. Pike served in the Psychological Warfare Branch in Egypt and Italy.  Then to the Philippines where he transferred to the Combat Art Section, Corps of Engineers, heading the unit to record U.S. occupation of Korea in 1945. These paintings are in the Historical Properties Section of the War Department.

As a member of the Air Force Historical Foundation (1945-1960), Mr. Pike did paintings for the USAF in France, Germany, Thule Greenland, Ecuador, Columbia, Japan and Formosa.  These paintings are in the permanent collection of the USAF Academy.

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Facts about John Pike

   Publications  Book References:  29
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Pike
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Watercolor: American Artist Andrew Wyeth Picks 20 Great American Watercolorists October 2006 Doherty, M. Stephen Yes
29 Book References for John Pike
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Lewis, David Landscape Painting Techniques 144 Yes
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1978 Pike, John John Pike Paints Watercolor 0 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1973 Pike, John Watercolor (Expanded edition) 223 Yes
1972 Meyer, Susan/Norman Kent Watercolorists at Work 160 Yes
1972 Phoenix Art Museum Today's Artist and the West By Members of the National Academy
(Exhibition catalog)
28 No
1971 Barrie, Erwin S (editor) Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc 1971 Year Book
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
1968 Kent, Norman 100 Watercolor Techniques 216 Yes
1966 Pike, John Watercolor 176 Yes
1966 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s 272 Yes
1965 Barrie, Erwin S (editor) Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc 1965 Year Book
(Exhibition catalog)
73 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1945 Watson, Ernest W/Norman Kent Watercolor Demonstrated 100 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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