Artist: Duane Hanson (1925 - 1996)
Nationality: American
Movement: Photorealism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Duane Hanson was the most successful sculptor of the Superrealist movement. He used his fiberglass figures dressed in real clothes to make commentary on the faults of the American way of life.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (32)
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Duane Hanson - Janitor 1973 polyester, fiberglas Milwaukee Art Museum American
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Duane Hanson - Football Player 1981 Oil on polyvinyl Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami American
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Duane Hanson - Young Worker 1976 polyester resin and Norton Museum of Art American
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Ed Hanson Nubian Goats Woodcut 20th century
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Let’s All Be Happy Together, Chris Hanson (Canada, born 1964)  (Artist), 1999, Photo collage
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Laguna Hills, Hanson Puthuff (United States, Missouri, Waverly, 1875 - 1972) , before 1914, Oil on canvas
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Untitled, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1991, Gelatin-silver print
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The Annunciation, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1969, Gelatin-silver print
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Newlyweds at the Window, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , no date, Gelatin-silver print
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Sailor in Minsk, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , circa 1980, Gelatin-silver print
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Self-Portrait As If I Were Dead, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1968, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Terrarium, interior Magritte’s home, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1965, Gelatin-silver print
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The Moments before the Tragedy, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1969, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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René Magritte and his easel, double image, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1965, Gelatin-silver print
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Persona, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1970, printed 1981, (Four) gelatin-silver prints
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René Magritte in bowler hat, multiple exposure, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1965, Gelatin-silver print
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René and Georgette Magritte, multiple exposure, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1965, Gelatin-silver print
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Portrait of Andy Warhol, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1958, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Nude painting, interior Magritte home, Duane Michals (United States, Pennsylvania, born 1932) , 1965, Gelatin-silver print
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Deborah Hanson-Murphy, American, Born in 1931 Variation 202 1981-82 Oil on canvas 100.3 x 81.3
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Deborah Hanson-Murphy, American, Born in 1931 Variation 378 1995-96 Oil on canvas 90.2 x 118.1
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Hanson Puthuff - Laguna Hills before 1914 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Duane Michals - Paradise Regained 1968 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Duane Michals - The Spirit Leaves the Body 1968 7 gelatin silver pri Cincinnati Art Museum American
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William Bradford The Coast of Labrador oil on canvas 1864
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William Hogarth O The Roast Beef of Old England Engraving and etching 1749
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William Hogarth The Enraged Musician Etching and engraving 17th - 18th century
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William Hogarth Untitled (woman boarding a carraige) etching and engraving 1747
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The New Bonnet, 1858 Francis W. Edmonds (1806-1863)AmericanOil on canvas; 25 x 30 1/8 in.
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The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 John Trumbull (1756-1843)AmericanOil on canvas; 71
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Reine Isabelle (1860 ; 1861) by BARRY (lithographe) ; TURGIS L (imprimeur)
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William T. Wiley A Window on History by George pastel, contÈ crayon, charcoal, graphite and acrylic on canvas 1993

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (26)
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First Existentialist Gallery at The First Existentialist Congregation: The Figurative Thoughtful Women: D. Lammie-Hanson
And she is introducing the Chocolate Brown and Radiant Blues in "The Moments" Tryptics. Blues are the skintones of the women and the Browns represent their earthiness. This show will also introduce her "green" process in her artwork. She has recyc...
Hoxton Distillery: The Poster Show +1
The Artists are: Neil Chapman and Steve Claydon
Tobias Collier
John Hanson and Richard Paul
Carol Ho
Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson
Michelle Barber
Steve Colson
Jens Kabisch
Mark Pearson

The Poster The S...
Laurence Miller Gallery: Duane Hanson: Photographs
The opportunity to view these photographs, which Hanson created as studies for his iconic hyperrealist sculptures, represents a watershed in Hanson's oeuvre and initiates meditation on the relationship between photography, sculpture, art and life....
Hoxton Distillery: The Poster The Show
The artists listed on the poster are: Tonico Lemos Auad; Richard Couzins; Neil Chapman & Steve Claydon; John Hanson & Richard Paul; Jens Kabisch; Yeu-Lai Mo; Marcelle Price; Edgar Schmitz; Robert Wilson The artists have responded i...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: DUANE HANSON – Sculptures of the American Dream
Ordinary heroes and life’s losers
Duane Hanson confronts us with the typical prejudices about Americans – they are naïve, superficial, heavy consumers… Yet he does so with a humanity that makes it impossible for us to reject them. His figures...
Hoxton Distillery: Terry's Studio: John Hanson and Richard Paul
The residual glamour of the 24-hour studio, with its black coffee, black walls and gaffer tape chaos, is teased out and pitched against the perfect world of product images. The photographs of office supplies and their suggestion of 9-5 ...
Parlor Gallery: People-Places-Spaces: Works by D. Lammie-Hanson, Kathleen Hayek and GG Stankiewicz
The Parlor Gallery began taking shape when Kathleen Hayek participated in a neighborhood Artist's Open Studio tour in the fall of 1998. Since her studio is a small room on the third floor of the 4 floor brownstone and can't accommodate more than 3...
Side Street Projects: Gymnosphore Bubbles and Steams: An Installation by David Deany and David Hanson
David Deany, painter and sculptor, has a conceptual bent and a predilection for environment making. After receiving an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997, he has been included in exhibitions in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Hou...
Portland Museum of Art: SPIRIT OF THE MASK
The mask is only a part of a ritual that also involves musicians, singers and dancers. Their function may be to personify spirits, gods or ancestors, to assume social control, to educate or to elude responsibility for one's actions. Mask performa...
Hoxton Distillery: Ways to Die: Jenny Lu, Carol Ho, John Hanson, Lee Maelzer, Richard McRae, Richard Paul
Ways to Die takes such a direct approach presenting: instructions for suicide; pop-culture suicide; a house on fire; causes of death on generations of an extended family tree; children committing suicide; a memorial to those who die of natural ...
Hoxton Distillery: Steven Claydon: The Third of the Third
Those who would inject super-inference of ‘spirit’ into the voids that parallel fleet street cartoon half tone and the partition walls of charity shop HQ PLC. Direct debit people. The useless individual. The happy and pittyfull frequency of th...
Centre of Attention: Featuring...Curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer
Al+Al
Oreet Ashery
estate of H.W Auden
Simeon Banner
Benedict Carpenter
Rosie Cooper
Greg Daville
Eveleigh and Evans
Nooshin Farhid
A.M. Hanson ('alexcalledsimon')
Jasper Joffe
Tina Keane
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Christie's Auction House: Contemporary Art
The Contemporary Art sales continue on 17 November, with highlights from the Belilty and Sebbag Collections. Included in this session will be Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled, 1982 (estimate: $80,000-120,000), one of the artist’s most important works ...
Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center: 2003 Mayor's Art Show to Features Work by Jerry Ross
Jerry Ross is also having a one-man show this month at the Marghitta Feldman Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Ross, who has had shows in Rome, Milan, Florence, and Bologna is known for his colorful landscapes and portraits of Italian subjects. His fav...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: New Texas Voices: New New York
There's something for everyone here - Goicolea's photographs are like cloning experiments in a romper room. Danny Hobart's video is a kind of tribute to 80s movies and their icons, i.e. Anothony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles. Josephine Mecks...
Hoxton Distillery: It's Darkest Before Dawn: Patrick Cunningham, Gary Simmonds and Robert Wilson
Patrick Cunningham's '101' features a grid of 101 small Ultramarine or Cobalt Blue paintings. To establish the position of each individual painting, the artist tossed a coin 101 times. Result: 48 Cobalt Blue paintings (heads) and 53 Ultramar...
Castello Estense di Ferrara: Traces of Memory
An illuminated cross point in the sign of Renaissance , between Wechsler’s paintings and the fascinating Castle d’Este. It was then Renaissance of the senses and the truth of beauty; they were then re-discovering the traces of authenticity in...
Artlink, Inc.: Workshop: Photographing Your Artwork, Phoenix, January 20, 2001
David Moore, noted art documenter will demonstrate practical issues of making the best transparencies you can make and to develop digital asset management of your art via traditional and digital photographic technologies. He will show the effe...
Retailers of American Craft: TOP 100 RETAILERS OF AMERICAN CRAFT ANNOUNCED
In its fifth year, this is the only program of its kind for which craft artists vote for top retailers. More than 20,000 craft artists from throughout the U.S. and Canada were polled by NICHE magazine, the national trade publication for craft r...
The Studio: Winter Solstice Exhibition Feartures Works by 25 Artists
Works by twenty-five artists will be on display. Many of the artists are in Museums and Galleries nationally as well as internationally and in the New York Metropolitan area. Sculptures in aluminum, steel, bronze and ceramic are featured i...
The Studio: Annual Winter Group Exhibition - Winter Solstice III
A short video by Robert Federico, Energy: Returning, incorporates natural phenomena and digital technology to suggest the mysterious forces that govern the cosmos. Laurel Garcia Colvin uses the encaustic medium and a variety of imagery in her Noct...
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art: I Feel Mysterious Today: 25 International Emerging and Established Contemporary Artists
I feel mysterious today both emphasizes and reflects a current sensibility that gives privelage to allusive and subjective modes of expression over the more direct and strident political positioning characteristic of art celebrated in the globalis...
National Gallery of Art: Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting
This exhibition is generously supported by Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. "Throughout the ages, trompe l’oeil has always been one of the most popular genre...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists (1850-1950)
Almost all the figurative artists who gathered in the artistic communities of southern California during that time had studied in Eastern and European academies which stressed the primacy of the figure. Arriving in California, they faced two chal...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Following the inaugural exhibition, the private collection of around 2,000 works of art, which has been loaned to the Hamburger Bahnhof for a period of seven years, will be gradually shown in its entirety in a series of temporary exhibitions. The ...
Broward County Public Art and Design Program: Sound / Light / Multimedia Artworks for Pedestrian Bridges at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport
Agency: Aviation Department The Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport is designated A Place for People, and facilitates the belief that a modern airport serving millions can still be civilized. From its 9,000 ft. main runway, nonsto...

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