James Havard b. 1937
James Havard first gained recognition in the 1970s for pioneering the Abstract Illusionist movement, a style of painting where forms on the picture plane were shaded to appear three-dimensional. The movement included artists such as Al Held and Allan D'Arcangelo. By the 1980s and 1990s, Havard returned to figuration, creating works inspired by Art Brut masters such as Jean Dubuffet. Richly colored, collaged and carved in encaustics, these works are raw, rudimentary and elemental, drawing inspiration from Native American, African and Caribbean tribal cultures, cave paintings and children's drawings. Havard also made mixed media box constructions offering another area of experimentation in his incredibly prolific forty-year career.
James Havard was born in 1937 in Galveston, Texas. He earned a BA from Sam Houston State College in Huntville, Texas in 1959 and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia from 1961 - 1965. During the 1960s and 1970s Havard traveled extensively throughout Europe and lived in France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and the Caribbean island of Tortola where he had a second home. He lived in New York in the 1970s and 1980s before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico permanently in 1989. He has exhibited extensively for over forty years in the United States and Europe. His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden, among others. He now lives in Pennsylvania.
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James Havard
Hopi Studying Mimbres
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $12,350
James Havard
Cactus Bloom
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $11,875
James Havard
Cane Garden Bay
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $9,100
James Havard
Santa Fe Light Wall and Mask
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $8,750
James Havard
Untitled
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $7,150
James Havard
Dusty Dress
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $5,938
James Havard
Mimbres 1250 AD
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $5,625
James Havard
For Arnold
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $5,313
James Havard
Outside Pojoaque
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $4,550
James Havard
Mimbres Cave
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $4,550
James Havard
White Cloud
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $4,500
James Havard
AH PS 103 (333A)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $4,375
James Havard
Adobe
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $4,063
James Havard
New Mexico History Page (220A)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,640
James Havard
Falling Eagle
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,380
James Havard
Sacagawea (No. 21)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,000
James Havard
Crow Bed
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,000
James Havard
Mudhead Wall
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,000
James Havard
Fallen Eagle
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,750
James Havard
Milano Gypsy
estimate: $1,500–2,500
result: $2,750
James Havard
Still Life for Morandi
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $2,000
James Havard
Sioux Playground
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $1,875
James Havard
Brahma Humps and French Couches
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $1,875
James Havard
Brahma
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $1,375