Stephen Hannock
Overview
Flooded River Above the Oxbow (Rose Horizon at Dawn), 1990
Stephen Hannock's formal artistic training began at Bowdoin and led him to participate in the Twelve College Exchange, where at Smith College he came under the influence of Leonard Baskin, the renowned sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, and graphic artist. Hannock is deeply influenced by the great American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, especially Thomas Cole, whose sweeping vistas of rugged Eastern terrain were imbued with a sense of the romantic and the sublime. Hannock's dramatic neo-Luminist paintings have been featured in numerous national publications and museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
Works
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Stephen HannockFlooded River: Kaleidoscope, Dawn, 2004Polished acrylic on canvas
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Stephen HannockFlooded River Above the Oxbow (Rose Horizon at Dawn), 1990Polished oil on canvas36 by 70 inches
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Stephen HannockDesert City NocturnPolished media on canvas
24 x 40 inchesSold
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Stephen HannockEvening Oxbow; For Agnes and Betty (Mass MoCA #178)Polished media on canvas64 by 96 inchesSold
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Stephen HannockNY Skylineoil on canvas36 x 72 inSold
91.4 x 182.9 cm
Biography
Stephen Hannock is an American painter best known for his large-scale atmospheric landscapes. Engaged with the history of landscape painting, Hannock employs viewpoints and expansive compositions which directly cite Hudson River School painters like Thomas Cole and Asher Brown Durand. Produced through built-up and intermittently sanded layers of paint, Hannock’s luminous works are polished smooth to create a photograph-like surface. Born on March 31, 1951 in Albany, NY, he studied at Bowdoin College and Smith College, before completing his BA at Hampshire College in 1976. Later, he worked as an apprentice to his former professor, the artist Leonard Baskin. Hannock's rise to prominence has been dotted with solo exhibitions at the Smith College Museum of Art and Marlborough Gallery in London. He currently lives and works in North Adams, MA. The artist’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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