The late Rhode Island School of Design professor Irving B. Haynes enjoyed five decades of producing fine art.

Always examining our visual perceptions, Haynes concluded that since the mid-19th Century, “our perceptions of light, color, surface, texture, shape, line, etc. and their complex interactions have forced a basic re-evaluation of ‘pictorial structure’ and ‘pictorial space.’” And he made it a goal to examine those relationships and perceptions in his work, which is prized today by collectors and students of art.