Harvey Quaytman
American painter, 1937–2002
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Korean, active in the United States, sculptor, born 1971
American painter and printmaker, born 1929
American printmaker, 1889–1971
Harvey Quaytman
BiographyHarvey Quaytman is best known for his hard-edge, minimalist paintings of basic and sometimes irregular geometric shapes. Quaytman was born in Far Rockaway, New York and began studies at Syracuse University in 1955. He received his bachelor's degree from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University in 1959, and exhibited throughout the United States and abroad beginning in the early 1960s. Throughout his career, Quaytman remained focus on the essential elements of art—shape, texture, color, and composition.
