About the artist:

Art Hansen was an American artist from Vashon Island. Hansen was a native Washingtonian. Hansen graduated in 1952 from the University of Washington. In 1957, he received an MFA degree from the University of Minnesota. Hansen had his first one-person show in 1952 at the Seattle Art Museum. In 1953, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study etching at the Munich Academy of the Arts. In addition to printmaking, he worked in watercolor, oil paint, lithography, and pen and ink. Hansen's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, among others.