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- ISBN 9780997249248
- Weight: 1179g
- Dimensions: 267 x 298mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Marquand Books Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The art of Paul Havas (1940–2012) is one of natural beauty, formal control, and unusual colors. Havas settled in the Puget Sound region in 1965 and went on to create a body of work dominated by oil paintings and drawings of landscapes and cityscapes, attracting admiring critical attention and considerable acquisitions by important museums.
This book draws on Havas’s archive of writings, letters, and documentary photographs, as well as accounts and interviews with critics, curators, fellow artists, and friends to set the artist in a perspective of Pacific Northwest and American art history. The result is a lively tale of flyfishing, rural cabins, sophisticated city life, and doggedly consistent work habits in studios in Seattle and the Skagit Valley. Quiet yet friendly, like his appealing paintings, Paul Havas is revealed as thoughtful and witty, with serious ideas about art, culture, and his own position in contemporary art. Readers are sure to enjoy this lavishly illustrated volume with extensive color plates, useful contextual images, and historical documentary photographs.
Matthew Kangas, noted independent art critic and author, is a corresponding editor for Art in America. He is the author of William Ingham: Configuration of Forces.
