Article Archives 1940s to 1970s
1961-12 Co-existence of Canvases
1959-12 In the Galleries
Bay of Arcachon Series
James Jarvaise: Bay of Arcachon Series and Recent Paintings Foreword to Catalogue. For nearly a dozen years James Jarvaise has painted in southern California. The technical proficiency of his art has roots in early study with Samuel Rosenberg in Pittsburgh and in undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Southern California.
1971 James Jarvaise Paintings selected for Hirshhorn Museum
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.
In The Galleries
Lovely color is What I mainly remember of paintings in previous Showings by James Jarvaise Los Angeles artist. During 1956 he has evidently concentrated his attack on other pictorial elements - line, form and texture, giving color their substantial backing. His new work, consisting of collage drawings and paintings, is at the Landau.. Gallery, .702 N La Cienega Blvd., to Feb. 16.
Holiday Fare at Galleries
James Jarvaise is showing his recent paintings at the Felix Landau Gallery. Last year the painters �Hudson River Series� seem to dry up and up painting mostly a landscape turned into a landscape with emerging figure. Since that time Jarvaise has been trying to find out what figure meant he, and has assiduously explored the figure it's landscape surroundings and the interiors which open onto it.
1961-11 France-Amerique
1954-09 Complete Success!
1971-08 Artist Easy About Honor
What for many Artists would be a dream-come-true is just "a nice addition to the biographical data," to Oxnard College~ art instructor Jim Jarvalse.Six of Jarvaise's paintings have recently been accepted for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. The works will hang in Smithsonian's Hirshhorn : Museum and Sculpture Garden.
1974-05 Art Walk
James Jarvaise long overdue return to the local exhibition scene finds him preoccupied with often essentially mono chromatic expanses of which motives are developed in an absurdly assuredly contemporary an individualistic way that nevertheless evokes have an ancient decorative patterns.