James D. Havens

Printmaker and illustrator was born in Rochester, New York.  He is considered part of the color wood revival in America.  Stricken with diabetes at a young age, before insulin, he was a sickly child who excelled at art.  At the age of 22 he was given a new drug insulin which saved his life.  He graduated from Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (today Rochester Institute of Technology) then went on to study with Troy Kinney and with Charles Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine.  His work is in many national and international collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress and Albright-Knox Art Gallery.