1971 James Jarvaise Paintings selected for Hirshhorn Museum

Los Angeles Times 1971

Six paintings by Oxnard College instructor James Jarvaise have been accepted for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The paintings, titled "Bell Tower," "Woman With Cat," "Woman Looking Through Window," "The Incident," "Sailboats at Eden Roc" and "Red Vase" were done in France and Spain during the '60s, a work period Jarvaise described as "figurative, subjective, identifiable. Now I'm totally away from that and my work is much more non-objective," he said.

Jarvaise said painting is living. He believes that artists who do not realize this are are shortsighted. Born in New York and reared on the East Coast, he was involved with art through childhood and has been under contract since he was 17. J arvaise studied 'at Carnegie Tech, the Philadelphia Academy and in Paris. He chose an art career when he learned there was a one-year waiting pe- . riod to enter the University 'of Southern California's School of Architecture. ,He earned his bachelor and master's degrees at USC, where he taught for six years. He taught at Pennsylvania State University, Occidental College, Chouinard Art Institute, j::alifornia Institute of the 1\rts, Valencia, and University of California at Santa Barbara. He has been at Oxnard College since it opened.