Background
Havens, James Dexter was born on January 13, 1900 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of James Smith and Caroline Prindle (Sammons) Havens.
Havens, James Dexter was born on January 13, 1900 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of James Smith and Caroline Prindle (Sammons) Havens.
Student of University Rochester, 1918-1921. Art studies, Rochester Atheneum, Mechanics Institute, Charles H. Woodbury Summer School (Maine), private studies with Thomas Fogarty, Troy Kinney, John East. Costigan, Grant Reynard.
Works represented in public collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, William Smith College, Arnot Art Gallery, Arlington (Massachusetts) Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Lyman Allyn Museum, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Institute Technology, Print Club of Rochester, Montclair, New Jersey Art Museum, U. Maine, New York Public Library, Pasadena (California) Art Museum (purchase award). Works exhibited widely nationally and abroad. Commissioned to design annual membership prints Prairie Print Makers, 1948, The Woodcut Society, 1949, American Color Print Society, 1950, Print Club Rochester, 1949.
Membership prints Prairie Print Makers, 1948, The Woodcut Society, 1949, American Color Print Society, 1950, Print. Member Society Washington Printmakers, Boston Printmakers, Boston Society Independent Artists, Print Makers Society of California, Academic Artists, American Color Print Society, Prairie Print Makers, American Water Color Society, Society American Graphic Artists, Washington Water Color.
Married Gladys Colcord, July 18, 1927. Children: Bettina Colcord (Mistress Stephen V. Letcher), James Colcord.