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May Issue 2006
McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Harry Hansen
The University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, will present the exhibit, The Essence of Nature: The Art of Harry Hansen, an exhibit of artwork that chronicles the 34-year career of recently retired USC art professor Harry Hansen. The exhibition will be on view through Aug. 5, 2006, at the McKissick Museum at USC.
The exhibit will feature 60 pieces, ranging
in size and medium. Visitors will follow Hansen's life work,
beginning with early pencil drawings of figures and abstract oils
and moving on to abstract watercolors and culminating with his
recognizable landscape watercolors.
Hansen's is best known in South Carolina for
his landscape watercolors that depict the Palmetto State's
diverse landscapes, but he also has captured the beauty of the
natural environments of North Carolina, Maine and Canada.
The exhibit, a combination of works from Hansen's private collection
and from 19 private lenders, features
oils, lithographic works and encaustic, which is a 2,000-year-old
process involving a mixture of pigment and hot
beeswax painted on a panel. Works on display range in size
from a 9-inch by 12-inch oil landscape to a large 40-inch square
encaustic.
For more information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 803/777-7251 or at (www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS/).
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