Jack Tilton

John Havemeyer Tilton Jr (April 25, 1951 – May 7, 2017) (known as Jack Tilton) was an American art dealer based in New York City who in 1983 founded Jack Tilton Gallery.

Tilton was educated at Tilton School (no family connection) and earned a bachelor's degree in business from Babson College in 1974. In 1999, he partnered with Bennett and Julie Roberts to open Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles, California, while continuing to run Jack Tilton Gallery in New York.

In the 1990s, Tilton's growing interest in Chinese contemporary art led him to start "The China Project", an artist's residency in Tongzhou, Beijing in China. In 2005, he relocated Jack Tilton Gallery to a townhouse at East 76th Street on the Upper East Side where Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were wed. Glenn Ligon, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nicole Eisenman, Francis Alÿs and Marlene Dumas. He also played an important role in the careers of artists Kiki Smith, Fred Tomaselli and David Hammons.

Personal life In 1982, Tilton married Constance "Connie" Rogers, an art consultant who had graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College and received a master's degree in Art History from Columbia University. Tilton and Rogers Tilton had two sons.

In 2017, Tilton died at the age of 66 due to complications from cancer.