Armin C. Hansen, N.A.
SOLD
Title:
"Monterey Harbor"
Date:
c. 1927
Size:
13" x 14 3/4"
Medium:
Watercolor
Signed:
Signed lower left
Signed Armin Hansen A.N.A. lower left
Provenance: Private colleciton, northern California
Exhibited:
"Coastal Views: California and the Pacific Northwest"
organized by the Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, June 24 - October 29, 2023.
Illustrated in the catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition, page 11.
It was not until the fall of 1916, after spending considerable time there, that Hansen began to focus on the fishing culture of the Monterey Peninsula as his chosen subject. By the following summer, his Monterey fishing subjects were quite popular critically and commercially. By 1918, he established a year-round residence in Monterey, and by 1922, he fully settled there.
Once he started producing a body of work focused on the Monterey fishing industry, his critics enthusiastically embraced him for having the perfect attributes for the ruggedness of his chosen subject—'Hansen is a bold painter who, having lived so long with the fishermen, seems to have the sun, fog, salt and spray of their daily life in his very blood.'
Hansen's scenes of Monterey's fishermen brought visibility to their livelihood while elevating them as worthy of artistic expression. Unlike his predecessors who romanticized the early California fishing trade, he chose to depict it as it was, reflecting the diversity of its workers, the bustle of a growing commercial fishing port, and modern advancements to the trade.
Source: Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage by Scott A. Shields, PhD., 2015.
Provenance: Private colleciton, northern California
Exhibited:
"Coastal Views: California and the Pacific Northwest"
organized by the Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, June 24 - October 29, 2023.
Illustrated in the catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition, page 11.
It was not until the fall of 1916, after spending considerable time there, that Hansen began to focus on the fishing culture of the Monterey Peninsula as his chosen subject. By the following summer, his Monterey fishing subjects were quite popular critically and commercially. By 1918, he established a year-round residence in Monterey, and by 1922, he fully settled there.
Once he started producing a body of work focused on the Monterey fishing industry, his critics enthusiastically embraced him for having the perfect attributes for the ruggedness of his chosen subject—'Hansen is a bold painter who, having lived so long with the fishermen, seems to have the sun, fog, salt and spray of their daily life in his very blood.'
Hansen's scenes of Monterey's fishermen brought visibility to their livelihood while elevating them as worthy of artistic expression. Unlike his predecessors who romanticized the early California fishing trade, he chose to depict it as it was, reflecting the diversity of its workers, the bustle of a growing commercial fishing port, and modern advancements to the trade.
Source: Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage by Scott A. Shields, PhD., 2015.
