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Gaylen C. Hansen (born September 21, 1921) is an American artist best known for neo-expressionist figurative paintings that feature the flora and fauna of the Palouse, a geographically unusual area in Eastern Washington state where he lives and works, and “the Kernal,” Hansen’s alter-ego frontiersman whose often-perilous adventures are depicted in many of the artist’s canvases. Hansen’s paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Beijing, and Singapore, and are held in numerous public and private collections. Hansen has received several prestigious awards, including the Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists in 2001. Between 2007 and 2010, Hansen was the subject of a traveling retrospective exhibition, titled "Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings." Hansen served on the faculty at Washington State University in Pullman, WA from 1957 to 1982. == Early life and education == (Gaylen Hansen ) was born in Garland, Utah in 1921. During the mid-1800s, Hansen’s family traveled west with Mormon pioneers to escape religious persecution. They settled in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, then a wild and uncultivated wilderness. Until World War II, horses were used by the Mormons to farm the rugged land, demanding work that young Gaylen said he was “made for." Hansen rode saddle horses and worked with cows, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs, cats, geese, ducks, chickens and pigeons. All would turn up again later in Hansen's paintings. Until 1927, Hansen lived with his parents in Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah. Following his parents’ divorce, Hansen and his brother, Arthur, returned to Garland to live on an organic farm owned by his mother’s parents. Hansen’s mother, Verna (Whalen) Hansen, a dressmaker who enjoyed grand opera and art, soon moved to Los Angeles, California to secure employment. While at the farm, Hansen began drawing images “based on illustrations in The Saturday Evening Post.”〔 Hansen’s grandfather discouraged Gaylen’s interest in art. However, his father, Neils M. Hansen, a Harvard University-educated engineer who was wiped out during the Great Depression in 1929, had illustrated a self-penned book about his outdoor adventures and encouraged his son’s budding interest.〔 In 1938, Hansen moved to Salt Lake City during his senior year of high school to care for Neils, who was stricken with cancer. During that period, Gaylen and a classmate, (Frank Bacher ), painted watercolors by the Jordan River. Neils died in the same year.〔〔 In 1939, Hansen moved to Los Angeles to live with his mother and enrolled at the Otis Art Institute, a training institution for young artists who aspired to careers in academia.〔〔 Hansen returned to Salt Lake City in 1940 to work in a sign shop with Frank Bacher. They continued to paint together, doing “various kinds of modern painting.” Later that year, Bacher moved to New York City and Hansen attended the (Art Barn School of Fine Arts ) in Salt Lake City, where he also taught a figure drawing class.〔〔 In 1943, Hansen moved to New York City to study art and viewed works by modern artists including Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marsden Hartley, and Matta Echaurren.〔〔 The next year, he returned to Salt Lake City and married Shirley Anderson.〔 Hansen volunteered for military duty but was classified 4-F (“unfit for duty”) by the U.S. Army Air Corps because of troubling x-ray results. Instead, Hansen studied airplane engine mechanics and worked at Hill Field Air Base in Ogden.〔 In 1945, Hansen enrolled in the University of Utah. The following year, he attended Utah State College in Logan on an art scholarship.〔 In 1952, Hansen earned a B.S. degree at (Utah State College ).〔 Also in 1952, Hansen commenced graduate studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He completed a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 1953.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaylen C. Hansen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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