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John Nava

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John Nava (Born 1947) is active/lives in California.  John Nava is known for Realist figure, abstraction, tapestry.

John Nava studied art at UC Santa Barbara and earned his MFA while studying at the Villa Schifanoia, Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence, Italy. His work is found in numerous private corporate and public collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan including the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Hawaii, the Triton Museum in San Jose, California and the Ventura County Museum of History and Art in Ventura, California.

Nava has done large-scale public works including a 45' wide mural for the Tokyo Grain Exchange in Tokyo, Japan and a 56' wide fountain sculpture at 100 Brand Blvd. in Glendale, California.

In 1998 he was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony to paint a life-size double portrait of Jack and Rebecca Benaroya for Benaroya Hall. In 1999 Nava was commissioned by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to create three major cycles of tapestries for the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The pr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3498 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  6
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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Nava
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Southwest Art Visual Delights March 2004 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Southwest Art News from the California Art Scene November 2002 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
ARTnews The Saints Come Marching In November 2002 Muchnic, Suzanne Yes
Southwest Art Classical Realism March 2002 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art News from the Coast March 2002 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Art-Talk Feature Story August 1999 Editor, Art-talk Yes
6 Book References for John Nava
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Fuglie, Gordon Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 29 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1983 Plous, Phyllis A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today
(Exhibition catalog)		 87 Yes
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