ARTWORKS BY MAIA CHAVEZ LARKIN

Learn About the Artist - MAIA CHAVEZ LARKIN

Western artist Maia Chávez Larkin was born in the artists’ community of Woodstock, NY to a family of artists. Her father, Edward Chávez, started his career creating murals in public spaces across the West through the WPA initiative. After moving East following WWII, he became an integral part of the Woodstock artists’ colony, a member of the National Academy of Design, and a professor at the New York Art Students League. His works exist in the collections of the Whitney, MoMA, The Hirshorn Collection and the Library of Congress. Her mother, Eva van Rijn, is an award winning conservation artist who was for many years the president of the Board of Directors at the Woodstock School of Art. Her wildlife and landscape paintings are in the collections of six art museums.

Along with learning from her parents and a community of artists in both Woodstock and Taos, Maia has studied architectural illustration at the New York School of Interior Design, as well as painting and drawing with Il Chiostro in Vagliagli, Italy and the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, NY.