Background
HUBBARD, John was born on February 26, 1931 in Ridgefield. Connecticut. Son of G. Evans Hubbard and Dorothea Denys Hubbard.
HUBBARD, John was born on February 26, 1931 in Ridgefield. Connecticut. Son of G. Evans Hubbard and Dorothea Denys Hubbard.
He attended Harvard University, and then did three years of military service in Japan. From 1956 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, and also with Hans Hoffman.
include nine at New Art Centre, London 1961-1975, three at Fischer Fine Art, London 1979-1985, Ten Americans, Rome 1959, British Painting in the Sixties, European Tour 1963, British Painting 1974, Hayward Gallery, London 1974, Jubilee Exhibition, R.A., London 1977, Yale Center for British Art 1986, and others in London, Oxford and elsewhere; designed decor and costumes for Le Baiser de la Fde, Dutch National Ballet 19t»v. Midsummer, Royal Ballet, London 1983 and Sylvia Pas de Deux, Royal Ballet, London 1985. He visited Rome and travelled in Europe. From 1963 to 1965 Hubbard taught at Camberwell School of Art in London. Hubbard has designed sets and costumes for ballet companies including the Dutch National Ballet and the Royal Ballet, and tapestries for the Said Business School, Oxford and the National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur.
He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut and at Marlborough Fine Art in London. His work is in public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Yale Center for British Art.
Married Caryl Whineray in 1961.