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Item No: 25380
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| Keywords: Man, Horse, Lone, Ranger, Native, American, Indian, Plain, Mountain, Lie, American, Wild, West, Horses, Riders, Figures, Horseback, Men, Man, Indian, Red, Cowboy, Beach, Coast, Waves, Shore, Brown, Painting, Masters, Century, American, |
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Hansen, H.W (1854-1924)
H.W. Hansen was born in Dithmarschen, Germany, and began his painting career in Hamburg. He emigrated to the United States in the late 1870s, going first to Chicago to study at the Art Institute and later to California. In 1901, at an exhibition of his paintings in San Francisco, his work The Pony Express aroused considerable attention. His paintings proved popular among private collectors during the early 1900's.
Principally a watercolorist, Hansen was especially fine at painting horses. Hansen's work is illustrative, depicting lively figures set against typical western backgrounds of open prairie and purple mesa. Whether in oil or watercolour, details of costume are accurate, movement animated, facial expressions keenly observed and landscapes bright and naturalistic. Hansen's understanding and love of the wild outdoors helped to preserve landscapes and types of people in a kind of pictorial history. By the time of his death at Oakland in 1924, the automobile had replaced the horse and the wide-open spaces had begun to disappear. |
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