james v. harvey
James V Harvey was born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada and pursued his artistic education at the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his B.F.A. in 1951. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Egypt, 1953-54.
Harvey then moved to New York City where he worked as a commercial artist by day (he designed the original Brillo box made famous by Andy Warhol) and an abstract painter by night. Harvey quickly began to exhibit and in a New York Times review (Brian O’Doherty-1961) of a show at Graham Gallery, he was called “…the richest young talent to flex his action-painting muscles for some time”.
Harvey’s life was tragically cut short by cancer and he died in New York City in 1965.
Solo Exhibitions
- Roko Gallery, New York, 1953
- Cairo, Egypt, 1954
- Parma Gallery, New York, 1956, 1958
- Graham, New York, 1959, 1960, 1961
- Galleria del Milione, Milan, Italy, 1962
- Graham, New York, 1962, 1964
Group Exhibitions
- Whitney Annual 1952
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Painting Exhibition 1952
- Fulbright Painters, Whitney Museum, 1958
- “Critic’s Choice”, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958
- Selections from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, Rhode Island Museum of Art, 1959
- “Young America”, (four paintings) Whitney Museum, 1960
- Corcoran Biennial, 1960
- Yale University Art Gallery, 1961
Sources
- Graham Gallery, New York City. c. 1965-66
- Time Magazine, May 15, 1964
- New York Times, December 11, 1961
