John Laub, 57, Scenic Painter of Landscapes in the Northeast
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John Laub, 57, Scenic Painter of Landscapes in the
Northeast, Dies
By Ken Johnson NY Times
His work:
http://www.fischbachgallery.com/artists/artists_ins.php3?artist=17
John Laub, a New York-based landscape painter, died on March
3 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 57.
The cause was leukemia, said his partner, Bruce C. Kingsley.
Mr. Laub painted scenic views in places like Fire Island,
Woodstock, Martha's Vineyard and Mount Desert Island, Me. He
would begin painting at the site and finish in the studio,
referring to drawings and photographs. The combinations of
vivid color, emphatic brushwork and realistic observation
that he produced call to mind paintings by contemporary
realists like Neil Welliver and Janet Fish.
John Frederick Laub was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 30,
1947. He studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia,
the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Philadelphia
College of Art, from which he received a degree in graphic
design.
Upon graduation, a teacher advised him to abandon design and
become a painter. He had his first solo exhibition at the
Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1975 and his first solo show in
New York, where he moved in 1984, at the Helio Gallery in
1991. He had three exhibitions at Fischbach Gallery, now in
Chelsea, the last in 2003.
Mr. Laub, who learned he had H.I.V. in 1989, was a longtime
AIDS activist. For five years he was a supervisor of the
AIDS hot line of the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Mr. Laub is survived by Mr. Kingsley; his mother and
stepfather, Lorraine and Ben Alexander, of Huntingdon
Valley, Pa.; his father, Richard Laub,of West Palm Beach;
his brother, Michael Laub, of Gladwyne, Pa.; and his
sisters, Kathleen Laub, of Delray Beach, Fla., and Patricia
Tieger, of Tivoli, N.Y.