Duane Hanson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Duane Hanson

American artist

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1925

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1996

Profession: photographer, artist, sculptor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 – January 6, 1996) was an American artist and sculptor born in Minnesota.
He spent most of his career in South Florida.
He was known for his life sized realistic sculptures of people.
He cast the works based on human models in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo, and bronze.
In 2018, two of Hanson's works were exhibited at the Met Breuer in the show "Like Life", which NY Times critic Roberta Smith reviewed, stating "(the show) juxtaposes figurative sculptures throughout time.
On view was Hanson's hyper-realistic “Housepainter II” (1984), and “Hermes,” attributed to Polykleitos (A.D.
first or second century).
Mr.
Hanson's sculpture of a black man whitewashing a brown wall underscores the curators’ point that ancient marbles were originally brightly colored — and that the whiteness of Classical art is a fiction that has “colored” the Western view of perfection.Peter Scheldahl, noted in his March 2018 article for The New Yorker about the show "Like Life", "his (Hanson's) hyperrealistic tableaux, starring a frowsy working-class housewife and a weary housepainter, curiously become ever more affecting as their period looks recede in time." Hanson's works are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Smithsonian.