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The Kernal Encounters a Swarm of Crickets

The Kernal Encounters a Swarm of Crickets

1983

Gaylen Hansen

American, born 1921

Oil on canvas
71 1/2 x 83 in. (181.61 x 210.82 cm)
Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund and gift of Byron W. Todd in memory of his wife Patricia Todd
88.99
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryPullman, Washington, Washington State University Museum of Art, Gaylen Hansen: The Paintings of a Decade, October 14 - November 17, 1985 (Seattle Art Museum, November 26, 1985 - February 2, 1986; Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, March 29 - June 1, 1986; The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, July 3 - August 15, 1986; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, September 12 - October 19, 1986; San Jose Museum of Art, November 15, 1986 - January 11, 1987; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Cultural Affairs Dept., January 27 - March 1, 1987).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, June 7 - September 2, 1990.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Weird and Whimsical: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, January 4 - October 14, 2001.

Pullman, Washington, Washington State University Museum of Art, Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings, February 16 - April 8, 2007.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Freeing the Figure, November 5, 2009 - November 28, 2010.


Published ReferencesKangas, Matthew, "Return to the Viewer: Selected Art Reviews", Midmarch Arts Press, 2011, pg. 102

Darling, Michael et al. Betty Bowen Award: Thirty Years. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2009, illus. p. 8

Platt, Susan. "Paradigms and Paradoxes: Nature, Morality and Art in America," in Art Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Art and Ecology), Summer 1992, pp. 85-88, illus. p. 88, fig. 6

Johns, Barbara. Modern Art from the Pacific Northwest in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1990, no. 28, p. 32

"Public Invited to Meet Honors Award Artist Gaylen Hansen at Fairwood Library Dedication," in The ARTS, Newsletter of the King County Arts Commission, (May 1987), vol. 16, no. 5 (reproduced)

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