Patrick J. Maveety
June 17, 1930-June 2, 2016
Palo Alto, California

Patrick Maveety died June 2, 2016 at the Vi at Palo Alto after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Patrick was born in San Diego on June 17, 1930, to Dr. Herman M. Maveety, a naval surgeon and Sylvia Kolk Maveety. He attended elementary and secondary schools in San Diego and graduated from high school in Oceanside, California. He graduated from Stanford University in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in art and later that year attended Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. Commissioned as an ensign in 1952, he remained in the U.S. Navy for 21 years with duty on board ships in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets as well as shore duty in Washington, D.C., overseas in Hamburg, Germany, and in Indonesia where he was assistant naval attache in the American embassy. He was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal upon his retirement in 1972 as a lieutenant commander.

Later that same year, he returned to Stanford as a graduate student in art history and in 1978 accepted the voluntary position as curator of Asian art at the Stanford University Museum of Art (now the Cantor Center for Visual Arts) where he curated exhibitions ranging from blue and white ceramics of the Far East and Chinese opium pipes to Buddhist art and Indonesian textiles. In 2000, on his 70th birthday, he retired as curator, but has subsequently continued his volunteer association with the Cantor Center. He was a member of the Stanford Associates, Stanford Alumni Association, The Founding Grant Society, The Oriental Ceramic Society of London, The Committee for Art at Stanford, the Society of Asian Art and a volunteer at The Treasure Market at Stanford.

Patrick and his wife have made over 40 trips with the Stanford Alumni Association Travel/Study program. In addition to Asian art, he enjoyed painting watercolors, wood carving, photography, classical music, Napoleonic military figure painting and all the various family cats. In 1980 the Maveetys acquired a partnership in the Lawrence Gallery in Oregon at Salishan, where the family has had a summer home since 1970. Later they became sole owners of the renamed Maveety Galleries at Salishan and Portland. In 2005 they moved to the Classic Residence by Hyatt, now the Vi at Palo Alto.

He is survived by his wife and best friend of 58 years, Darle Hermann Maveety, who was his Stanford classmate, and his daughter, Mary Helen Klassert, and her husband, Joel Klassert. He was preceded in death by his son, Matthew Hermann Maveety in 2015.

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