Max Hayslette (b. 1929) American, Limited Edition Abstract Landscape Serigraph. Signed and numbered 126/300 bottom right. 

Overall Size: 63 x 48 3/4 in. 

Sight SIze: 59 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. 

#3563 . 

Max Hayslette was born Maxwell Hayslette on June 11th, 1929 in Rupert, West Virginia. He showed artistic ability early in life and began exhibiting his work at venues including the Allied Artists of West Virginia and West Virginia Women’s Club art exhibits when he was still in high school. Graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1948, he studied for two years at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and subsequently attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago where his teachers included Egon Weiner and Alexander Archipenko. In 1952 he began working for Kenneth Olson Design in Chicago. Except for a brief period of military service in Korea from 1953 to 1954, he remained with Olson until relocating to Seattle in 1961. Hayslette joined Martin Berg and Associates, interior and exhibit designers, in Seattle in 1962. His assignments during the next decade included developing major exhibits for industrial clients including Boeing, Mitsubishi and Georgia-Pacific, and designing pavilions for four World’s Fairs. Winning acclaim for his State of Alaska pavilions at both the 1962 Seattle and 1964 New York World’s Fairs, Hayslette’s Australia Pavilion at the 1974 Spokane World’s Fair was singled out by the New York Times as the Fair’s “most successful” exhibit in reflecting the event’s environmentally friendly theme. In 1973 Hayslette founded Olympus Graphics, producing affordable, large-scale abstract landscape paintings as limited-edition serigraphs and giclee prints for corporate and hotel interior decoration, sometimes as large as 8 feet tall or wide. Olympus Graphics developed a nationwide clientele before being acquired and renamed Grand Image by Larry Winn in 1984. While Hayslette continued to create original artwork for Grand Image, he focused increasingly on pursuing his own painting interests in the ensuing years. Equally conversant in realism and abstraction, his work has since been featured in dozens of solo shows at galleries in the states of Washington, California, North Carolina and West Virginia, and at institutions including the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and West Virginia University. The latter institution holds an extensive collection of Hayslette’s work as well as personal papers documenting his long and diverse career.

Wearing near frame.