Max Hayslette

1929 – 2024

Born in Rupert, West Virginia, in 1929, Max Hayslette graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 1951. That fall, he studied briefly with Egon Weiner and Alexander Archipenko at the Art Institute of Chicago—a period he said transformed the way he viewed art and shaped his understanding of how he would fit into a life of design and painting. It was then that he began to embrace the modernist approach to life and art.

At the end of 1951, Mr. Hayslette was awarded an internship with Kenneth Olson, one of the original Chicago Seven, a group of leading artists and designers during a time when remnants of the Bauhaus movement were centered in Chicago. He remained on Olson’s staff for ten years.

In early 1962, Hayslette relocated to Seattle, Washington, and became a principal at the design firm Berg, Hayslette, Dupar. In 1973, he founded Olympus Graphics, Inc., and Olympus Atelier on Bainbridge Island, WA. He later lived and worked on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state.

Mr. Hayslette greatly admired Alexander Archipenko and Man Ray, from whom he learned much. He studied the masterpieces of Asian artists in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Kyoto, and traveled extensively throughout Europe, often painting in southern France, northern Italy, the Greek Islands, and western Turkey. These journeys profoundly influenced his work.

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Max Hayslette

1929 – 2024

Born in Rupert, West Virginia, in 1929, Max Hayslette graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 1951. That fall, he studied briefly with Egon Weiner and Alexander Archipenko at the Art Institute of Chicago—a period he said transformed the way he viewed art and shaped his understanding of how he would fit into a life of design and painting. It was then that he began to embrace the modernist approach to life and art.

At the end of 1951, Mr. Hayslette was awarded an internship with Kenneth Olson, one of the original Chicago Seven, a group of leading artists and designers during a time when remnants of the Bauhaus movement were centered in Chicago. He remained on Olson’s staff for ten years.

In early 1962, Hayslette relocated to Seattle, Washington, and became a principal at the design firm Berg, Hayslette, Dupar. In 1973, he founded Olympus Graphics, Inc., and Olympus Atelier on Bainbridge Island, WA. He later lived and worked on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state.

Mr. Hayslette greatly admired Alexander Archipenko and Man Ray, from whom he learned much. He studied the masterpieces of Asian artists in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Kyoto, and traveled extensively throughout Europe, often painting in southern France, northern Italy, the Greek Islands, and western Turkey. These journeys profoundly influenced his work.

Accomplishments

Mr. Hayslette is represented in over 400 private, corporate and public collections, most notably the Max Hayslette Archives Collection at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; the Rockefeller Foundation; Stanford University; Shoenbaum Library at the University of Charleston; Easley Library at Bluefield College, Bluefield, VA; West Virginia State Museum of Art at Cultural Center, Charleston; North House Museum, Greenbrier Historical Society, Lewisburg, WV; The Jerry West Collection; Department of Fine Arts, Seattle University; Bainbridge Art Museum, Bainbridge Island, WA; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Galerie Jacquin d’ Art Paris, Paris, France; American Medical Association; Wells Fargo Bank; Bank of America; IBM; Ford Motor Company; The Smithsonian; and US Embassies around the world. An abridged list of his showings past and present include Artist of Chicago and Vicinity Annual Exhibitions, Art Institute of Chicago; Northwest Watercolor Society AnnualExhibitions, Seattle Art Museum; 2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy; Exhibition Momentum Midcontinental 1952, Art Institute of Chicago; Artists of the Mississippi Valley Annual Exhibitions, State Art Museum, Springfield, IL; Allied Artist of West Virginia Annual Exhibitions, Galleries of Morris Harvey College, Charleston, WV; Feragil Gallery, New York City; Findlay Gallery, Chicago; Bev’s Fine Art, Raleigh, NC; Cooper Gallery, Lewisburg, WV; Roby King Galleries, Bainbridge Island,WA; Christopher Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Hanson Gallery of Carmel, CA; Dick Kleinman Fine Arts, Cleveland; Nese Galleries of California; Kevin Barry Fine Arts, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Hayslette currently exhibits at Carrie Goller Gallery, Poulsbo, WA.

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