Roby King Gallery has been proud to show the “Modernist” style works of Max Hayslette, culminating in four one shows over the last several years. Max credits studies with Alexander Archipenko and Egon Wiener in Chicago during the ’50’s with a “Modernist way of looking at life and painting.”
“The combination of a long dance between memory and imagination is the root from which my images grow.”
In April 2011, Governor E.R. Tomblin of his home state of West Virginia presented Hayslette the award of “Distinguished West Virginian”; and West Virginia University will house The Max Hayslette Archives Collection at the Morgantown Campus.