James Kahllo

Fine Art

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

We have acquired a large number of Harvey’s work from his estate.  Please inquire.