Marvin Everett Hayes is an American painter and illustrator, working primarily in egg tempera and copperplate etchings.
Hayes stayed out of school for a semester, then received an academic scholarship to Lamar University in 1960-63[3] and a job offer from Lamb Printing.
Following graduation, Hayes became an award-winning illustrator, appearing in Esquire, McCall's, Playboy, Redbook, Reader's Digest, Time, and Good Housekeeping.
Encouraged by Ted Rousseau and Meyer Schapiro, he turned to fine art, working primarily in egg tempera and copperplate etchings.
Since June 1963, Marvin Hayes has been affiliated as a volunteer with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, working in the Education, Drawings and Prints, Media and Objects Conservation Departments.
The viewers were able to see actual videos of the pieces being opened and displayed showing all of its secret compartments and sliding panels and mechanical inner workings.
A video clip from the 2012 show of the Berlin cabinet went viral on YouTube with over thirteen million hits (Now at 11/22/2016) Use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKikHxKeodA The technique of using monitors to enhance, enlarge, and illustrate objects such as furniture, sculpture, pottery, and jewelry has become a standard since Marvin first suggest it.
Marvin also did preliminary imaging work for Dr. Carmen Bambach on the Michelangelo drawings show due in November 2017.
A member of the Microsoft development team, he was an early proponent and innovator of digital imaging and an expert in video, scanning, color calibration and large format printing.