biografía de James Dexter HAVENS (1900-1960)

Lugar de nacimiento: Rochester, NY

Lugar de defunción: Fairport, NY

Direcciones: Fairport, NY

Profesión: Wood engraver, etcher, block printer, illustrator, painter

Estudios: Univ. Rochester; Rochester Inst. Tech. under Alling Clements; and with Thomas Fogarty (etching), Troy Kinney, Charles H. Woodbury, Ogunquit Sch. c.1935; John E. Costigan.

Exposiciones: LACMA, 1934-36, 1938; Phila. Pr. Club, 1934-43, 1946-48; Denver Art Mus., 1935, 1936, 1938; S. Indp. A., 1936, 1938; AWCS, 1938, 1941; PAFA, 1941; NAD, 1942, 1944, 1952-55; Audubon Artists, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1953; SAGA, 1947, 1950-52, 1955; LOC, 1949, 1951, 1953; The Woodcut Soc., 1949; Am. Color Pr. Soc., 1950; Rochester Art Club, annually; Rochester Pr. Club, annually; Rochester Mem. Art Gal.; Albright Art Gal.; executed color woodcuts for Membership Prints for Prairie PM, 1948. Awards: prizes, Rochester Pr. Club, 1936, 1939, 1949, 1951; Univ. Rochester, 1939; Albright Art Gal., 1945; BM, 1947; Rochester Mem. Art Gal., 1949; SAGA, 1955; Pasadena Art Mus., 1958.

Asociaciones: Color Block PM; Southern PM; Woodcut Soc.; ANA; AAPL; Rochester Art Club; Rochester Pr. Club; Am. Color Pr. Soc.; Academic Artists; Albany Pr. Club; AWCS; Wash. WCC; Boston Soc. Indep. Artists; Soc. Wash. PM; Boston PM; SAGA.

Obra: BM; Lyman Allyn Mus. Art; MMA; Rochester Mem. Art Gal.; William Smith College, Geneva, NY; Arnot Art Gal.; Rochester Inst. Tech.; Arlington (MA) Pub. Lib.; Montclair Art Mus.; NYPL; Univ. Maine; Pasadena Art Mus.; G.W.V. Smith Mus. Art; LOC; Rochester Pr. Club

Comentarios: Specialized in etchings and color wood block prints in the tradition of Margaret Patterson and Eliza Gardiner.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; Charles Woodbury and His Students.