Paul Havas | |
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Born | Paul Havas 1940 |
Died | February 16, 2012 (aged 71) |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Margaret Miller Havas [1] |
Paul Havas (1940 − February 16, 2012) was an American painter. Havas is known for his landscape paintings.
Paul Havas was born in 1940 in Orange, New Jersey.[2] He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1962 and went on to earn a Master's Degree from the University of Washington in 1965.[3] He also studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and was a Max Beckmann fellow at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art.[2] Havas went back to teach painting and drawing at the University of Washington, Idaho State University, and Stanford University.[4]
The subject of Havas' work changed throughout his life. In his early years, around 1970, while living on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Havas painted trucks.[5] He soon moved on to paint landscapes using oil on canvas.[6] Havas spent 14 years, from 1970 to 1984, living and painting on Fir Island, located in the Skagit Valley.[2][4] The subject of the work he painted there was his surroundings: the farmlands of the Skagit Valley, the Cascades to the East, and the San Juan Islands to the West.[7] His work in the Skagit Valley was influenced by his early training in abstract expressionism,[4] and although he did not identify himself as an impressionist, he concentrated on light and how it fell across the subject of his work.[8] Some of Havas' paintings from this time were a part of the Northwest/New York Group Show at the Bayard Gallery in New York in 1980 and can be found in the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington.[2]
Upon moving back to Seattle in 1984, Havas began painting night cityscapes and urban northwest landscapes.[2] However, by 1993, around the time that he helped found the Northwest Figurative Artists' Alliance, he had resumed the creation of wilderness scenes, including both wide views and close-up depictions of specific elements of nature.[8][9] Between these cityscapes and wilderness scenes, Havas began shifting the perspective of his paintings indoors. The viewer of the painting sees both a piece of the inside of the house and the view of the landscape or cityscape through a window.[2] In a similar fashion, Havas also placed paintings within paintings, as seen in his work Piano and Painting, which features a painting of Lummi Island on the wall inside of a house. Lummi Island was a setting that Havas employed as he continued his work into the 2000s. His 2001 exhibition at the Woodside/Braseth Gallery, where his art was frequently displayed, included several paintings of Lummi Island.[7] He continued his work near his summer home by the mouth of Willapa Bay, painting landscapes in and around Oysterville, WA in the CDP of Tokeland, WA.[4][6]
Havas died at the age of 71 of pancreatic cancer on February 16, 2012.[4]
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Category:Landscape artists Category:People from Orange, New Jersey Category:Syracuse University alumni Category:University of Washington alumni Category:Corcoran College of Art and Design alumni