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Artful Lives - Jean Jarvaise

In the acknowledgments, Louis Stern of the eponymous gallery in Los Angeles notes the profound influence of Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Canning Miller, and writes, “Her selection of James Jarvaise for inclusion in the 1959 Sixteen Americans exhibition had the potential to change his professional destiny...”

Directors of the Festival of Arts Association today announced the winners participating In the $2000 prizes of the All-California Exhibit of Contemporary Paintings, both modern and conservative, held for the first time as a feature of the 20th annual Festi- val of Arts opening Saturday on the grounds adjoining Irvine Bowl.

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.

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.

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.

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.