Ed's Life
Teacher, artist, friend |
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Edwin Havas, Professor of Art Emeritus at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, taught for thirty-six years at Seton Hall University and Seton Hall Prep School. Ed also taught at the Montclair Art Musuem for twenty-six years. He is a graduate of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, Newark, NJ.
A signature member of the American Watercolor Society, Mr. Havas is a member and past president of the New Jersey Watercolor Society as well as the Essex Watercolor Club. He is also a member of the Bethlehem Palette Club, the Lehigh Art Alliance, and the Banana Factory.
His paintings have earned over one hundred and twenty awards. While serving with the Air Force in Japan, he received a major prize in an all-services competition for the Pacific area. Other awards included the Grand Prix for Aquarelle in an international juried exhibition in Monaco, as well as the New Jersey Watercolor Society’s Silver Medal and Best in Show Awards.
The art award given each year to a graduating senior at Seton Hall Prep School is given in Ed’s name. In 1992 Havas was named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International for his artistic contributions on behalf of Rotary’s International Student Exchange Program. He was presented with Seton Hall University’s distinguished service award, the McQuaid Medal in 1996, which is given to one professor annually.
Mr. Havas’ paintings are represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections including the Zheijiang Museum in Hangchow, China, the Montclair Art Museum and the New Jersey Historical Society permanent collections.
Ed Havas has had six one man exhibitions at Seton Hall University, the most recent a major exhibit of paintings of the Delaware Region of Northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, titled "Skylands" in 1996. Additional one man exhibitions were held at the American Irish Historical Society in New York City, the University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Sussex County Community College in Newton, NJ, as well as the Papermill Playhouse Gallery, Millburn, NJ and numerous other galleries in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In June of 2006, a one-man exhibition of 36 paintings was held at The Binney and Smith Gallery of The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pa. He has also been represented in many group exhibitions throughout the United States, including "More Than Meets The Eye: a Century of Realism in New Jersey, 1900-1994" at the Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, and "Friends Near and Far" at the Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2002.
Numerous painting trips and workshops have been conducted by Mr. Havas in Italy, Ireland, Israel, Bermuda, North Carolina, New Mexico, Maine, Pennsylvania, New York State and throughout New Jersey, the most recent being at The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort, Shawnee On The Delaware, Pennsylvania.
Ed Havas maintains a studio at his home in Bethlehem, PA.
He is additionally represented in Pennsylvania by the Morgan Gallery, Route #940, Blakeslee, PA.
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