Artist

John Pike

born Boston, MA 1911-died Woodstock, NY 1979
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John Pike, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0002064
Born
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died
Woodstock, New York, United States
Biography

John Pike studied at the Cape Cod School of Art, then moved to Jamaica in 1933, where he lived for five years. He worked on many different art projects, including designing theaters and nightclubs, painting murals, and promoting a local rum company. Back in the States, he created illustrations for magazines and advertisements for everything from insurance to oil. In 1945 he traveled to Asia with the military, making sketches of the United States’ occupation of Korea, and also traveled around the world painting pictures for the Air Force Historical Foundation. He established the John Pike Watercolor School in Woodstock, New York, in 1960, and took people on “painting holidays” to Europe and South America.

Works by this artist (4 items)

Avery F. Johnson, The Isabelle, ca. late 1930s, watercolor and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1980.128.2
The Isabelle
Artist
Dateca. late 1930s
watercolor and gouache on paper
Not on view
Avery F. Johnson, Skating on Bonaparte's Pond (mural study, Bordentown, New Jersey Post Office), ca. 1940, oil on canvas mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.6
Skating on Bonaparte’s Pond (mural study, Bordentown, New…
Artist
Dateca. 1940
oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
Not on view
Avery F. Johnson, United States Coast Guard Wet, 1934, watercolor, tempera and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.93
United States Coast Guard Wet
Artist
Date1934
watercolor, tempera and pencil on paper
Not on view
Avery F. Johnson, Low Tide, ca. late 1930s, watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1980.128.3
Low Tide
Artist
Dateca. late 1930s
watercolor on paper
Not on view