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 John Himmelfarb (1946 – current) is an American artist from Chicago, IL. He works in many media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking. His work is often categorized as abstract expressionist.

He grew up in a household of artists surrounded by their art and the countryside that inspired them. John finished his undergraduate studies at Harvard University in liberal arts with a major in architectural sciences. He opened a studio in Chicago in 1970 and has worked primarily in Chicago since that time.

"John's work is based on a curious amalgam of postwar expressonism and surrealism," cites Helen Sheridan, Director, Collections & Exhibitions of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan. "He is strongly influenced, for example, by both the abstractionism of Jackson Pollock, with its emphasis on overall gesture and markmaking, and the Art Brut expressionism of Jean Dubuffet, with its use of childlike imagery to suggest directness and spontaneity. The fact is that John has drawn upon a number of influences from 20th century art history, but he has managed to move beyond these influences to develop his own powerful and personal voice."

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Art Institute of Chicago Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Baltimore Art Museum La Bibliothèque Nationale de France Blanden Museum of Art, Fort Dodge, Iowa British Museum, London, England Boston Public Library Print Collection Brooklyn Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts Davenport Art Museum, Iowa Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Illinois State Museum, Springfield Illinois State University Museum, Normal Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis University John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Josyln Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio Milwaukee Art Museum Minneapolis Institute of Art Art Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene Museum of Modern art, New York, New York Museum of Texas Tech University Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. New York Public Library, New York, New York Portland Art Museum, Oregon Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Sackner Archives of Visual & Concrete Poetry Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Sioux City Art Center, Iowa Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea University Art Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb Whitney Museum of American Art, Stanford, CT Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York