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Duane Hanson

Alexis Anderson. "My images are no more than what you see in real life". Duane Hanson. Birth: January 17, 1925. Death: January 6, 1996

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Duane Hanson

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  1. Alexis Anderson "My images are no more than what you see in real life" Duane Hanson

  2. Birth: January 17, 1925 Death: January 6, 1996 At the age of 70, Hanson died of toxic resin and fixative fumes from sculpting. After his death, tumors were found in his lungs and nodules on his abdomen.

  3. Family Life/ Influences and Inspiration • Duane Hanson was born in a small town from Minnesota called Alexandria. He then lived in a town of only about 700 that was known as Parkers Prairie. When he was thirteen he had created his first sculpture inspired by Gainsborough's portrait of a hansom young man wearing blue breeches. Using anything Duane could find in the house including his mothers butcher knife, or something laying around the farm he had carved blue boy out of soft wood. As a young boy, he was always interested in recreating the human form; with or without clothes. In the 1960’s pop artists were what inspired others because they were the first to develop new art forms based on images taken from “popular” culture, the Super Realists began working in the 1970’s. Duane was known as a Super Realist because of his very detailed life like sculptures.

  4. education • Received his BA from Macalester college in 1946 • Received his MFA from the Cranbrook academy of art in Bloomfield hills, Michigan in 1951 • Alexandria Technical College AA, Commercial Art 1974 – 1976 • South Dakota State University Art, Printing 1978 – 1981

  5. Movement, Style • Duane Hanson was a Super Realist who based his artwork off of real things, preferably humans.

  6. Achievements/ Awards Living: In 1992, Florida inducted him into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. In 1995, Broward [County] Cultural Affairs presented him with its Artistic Achievement Award. After Life: In 1983, he was given the Ambassador of the Arts Award of the State of Florida In 1985 he received the first annual "Florida Prize" of $10,000 for his outstanding achievements in sculpture 1987, he was honored with a "Duane Hanson Day" proclamation in Broward County, and he was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1992

  7. Tourists II - 1988Auto body filler,fiberglass and mixed mediaLife-sizeFrankfurt am Main. GalerieNeuendorf AG

  8. Housewife1970Polyester and fiberglass,polychromed in oil,with accessories Life-size

  9. Vendor with Walkman1989Bronze and mixed media

  10. Janitor1973Polyester, fiberglass, mixed media. Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Friends of Art

  11. Drug Addict 1974

  12. Old Couple on a Bench’ 1994

  13. Sculptures of Life

  14. Housepainter I1984/1988epoxy resin, coloured with oil, mixed technique, accessories

  15. Children Playing Game 1979polyvinyl chloride, coloured with oil, mixed technique and accessories

  16. Self-Portrait with Model 1979polyvinyl chloride, coloured with oil, mixed technique and accessories

  17. Queenie II 1988epoxy resin, coloured with oil, mixed technique, accessories

  18. I hope you enjoyed witnessing the artistic ability that Duane Hanson has shared with all of us.

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