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BiographyBorn in Far Rockaway, New York, Harvey Quaytman (1937-2002) was the grandson of Polish and Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned his BFA in painting at the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, MA. During his lifetime he had more than sixty solo exhibitions in different parts of the world including New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo. His work is represented in museum collections worldwide, including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Tate Gallery, London, UK; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. Quaytman’s first posthumous museum retrospective, Against the Static, was organized by curator Apsara DiQuinzio at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA in 2018.
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WorksExhibitions
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A Little Touch of Grace
September 18 - November 8, 2024Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present “A Little Touch of Grace,” a group exhibition of works by Farid Haddad, John McLaughlin, Richard Pousette-Dart, Harvey Quaytman, Hedda Sterne, Anne Truitt,...Read more -
John McLaughlin | Harvey Quaytman
3rd Floor March 31 - May 6, 2023 -
Sewn Burnt Folded Drawn Painted Collaged
Special Presentation: 3rd Floor January 12 - February 26, 2022Caetano de Almeida Marsha Cottrell Richard Diebenkorn Moira Dryer Jeronimo Elespe Robert Mangold Harvey Quaytman Alan Shields Anne Truitt Jack TworkovRead more -
Harvey Quaytman
Rockers and Pendulums, 1969-1977: 195 Chrystie St October 4 - November 3, 2018Opening Reception: October 10, 6 - 8 PM Van Doren Waxter is pleased to announce Harvey Quaytman: Rockers and Pendulums, 1969-1977 opening October 4 through November 3, 2018 at 195...Read more -
Harvey Quaytman
Hone February 22 - April 28, 2017Opening reception February 22, 6-8PM Van Doren Waxter is pleased to announce Harvey Quaytman: Hone, an exhibition of paintings from this crucial figure of late-era American abstraction. Opening February 22,...Read more
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The Art Show | ADAA
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Frieze Masters
October 12 - 16, 2022Works Available By: Max Bill Richard Diebenkorn Tom Fairs Hans Hofmann Willem de Kooning John McLaughlin Vera Molnár Camille Pissarro Ken Price Harvey Quaytman Pierre-Auguste...Read more -
Dallas Art Fair
April 21 - 24, 2022Caetano de Almeida James Brooks Marsha Cottrell Richard Diebenkorn Jeronimo Elespe Jessie Henson Hans Hofmann Volker Hüller Robert Motherwell Joshua Nathanson Evan Nesbit Harvey Quaytman...Read more -
The Art Show
February 27 - March 3, 2020
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Harvey Quaytman: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
by Gwen Allen, Artforum, January 4, 2019 -
Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static
by David Carrier, The Brooklyn Rail, December 11, 2018 -
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes! Harvey Quaytman Is Anything But Square
by Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED, November 28, 2018 -
Harvey Quaytman Was on His Rocker
by Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, November 28, 2018 -
Editors’ Picks, Print Week Edition: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
by Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, October 22, 2018 -
Art Fall Preview: Over 100 Not-to-Miss Shows From East Coast to West
By Will Heinrich, The New York Times, September 12, 2018 -
Harvey Quaytman
Hone exhibition review.Art In America, April 1, 2017 -
Goings on About Town
Hone exhibition review.The New Yorker, March 13, 2017 -
Harvey Quaytman Estate Now Represented by Van Doren Waxter
ArtNews, June 6, 2016 -
Harvey Quaytman
ArtForum, May 1, 2014 -
Eva Lundsager, R.H. Quaytman, and Mary Heilman Brush Up on Their Painting
The Village Voice, January 21, 2009 -
Harvey Quaytman
by McKee, ArtNews, August 31, 2007 -
Calm, Stately Cruciform Shapes Excite Respect, Not Enthusiasm
by Mario Naves, New York Observer, October 13, 2003 -
Harvey Quaytman
ArtForum, April 29, 1986 -
Harvey Quaytman
Art in America, October 31, 1980