James Jarvaise

James Jarvaise (born February 16, 1931 in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a contemporary U.S. artist in painting and Collage.

Work

He is best known for his Hudson River Series. One such show, Dorothy Canning Miller's Sixteen Americans saw his work completely sold out.

1959: "Sixteen Americans"

* Jay DeFeo
* Wally Hedrick
* James Jarvaise
* Jasper Johns
* Ellsworth Kelly
* Alfred Leslie
* Landes Lewitin
* Richard Lytle
* Robert Mallary
* Louise Nevelson
* Robert Rauschenberg
* Julius Schmidt
* Richard Stankiewicz
* Frank Stella
* Albert Urban
* Jack Youngerman

Paintings and collages from this series can be found at the Smithsonian and the MoMA in Los Angeles.

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Education

Carnegie Tech./ Pittsburgh, PA.

École d'art en France/Biarritz, France(Fernand Leger)

University of Southern California/ B.F.A., 1952

Yale/1953

University of Southern California/ M.F.A., 1954