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Duane Hanson, American, 1925 - 1996 (Artist)

1970
American
painted polyester resin, clothes (textiles, leather, rubber), wood, metal, plastic, found objects
United States
Overall: 47 1/2 × 35 × 42 in. (120.65 × 88.9 × 106.68 cm)
85.401a-n
Not on view
Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation
Look Here: Feast, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, March 15 - June 25, 2006

Duane Hanson, Kauffman Gallery, Huber Art Center, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA, April 6 - May 3, 1988

Contemporary Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, September 30 - November 15, 1987

Selections from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, March 29 - May 1, 1987

Pop Art 1955-70, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, February 27 - April 14, 1985; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, May 1 - June 2, 1985; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, June 26 - August 11, 1985

Sculptures by Duane Hanson, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, April 25 - June 10, 1984; Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, July 12 - August 14, 1984; Daimaru Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, September 12 - 24, 1984; Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan, November 13 - 25, 1984

Celebrate: Duane Hanson, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL

Duane Hanson/Matrix 40, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, April - June, 1978

Duana Hanson, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, October 6 - 31, 1976; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, November 15 - December 15, 1976; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, January 16 - March 12, 1977; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, March 29 - May 22, 1977; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, June 6 - July 3, 1977; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansis City, MO, July 20 - August 14, 1977; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO, September 2 - 29, 1977; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, October 15 - November 11, 1977

Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-75, Department of Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, October 3 - November 30, 1975

John DeAndrea/Duane Hanson: The Real and Ideal in Figurative Sculpture, Museum of Conetmporary Art, Chicago, IL, June 29 - August 25, 1975; AFL-CIO Labor Studies Center, Silver Springs, MD, May 1975

Directions 3: Eight Artists, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, June 19 - August 6, 1971

(O.K. Haris Works of Art, New York) by 1970; Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, Virginia in February of 1971; Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in December of 1985.
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