Gaylen Hansen
Gaylen Hansen

Author: Gaylen C. Hansen

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 116

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Gaylen Hansen, recognized for several decades as one of the most amusing, intriguing, and challenging artists of the Northwest, is the subject of this lavishly illustrated volume. In the company of magpies, wolf-dogs that carry chunks of moon in their jaws, gargantuan grasshoppers, monstrous trout, and flagrant tulips, Hansen's quixotic alter ego "The Kernal" populates the artists's mad and slightly ominous Palouse landscapes. Underlying all of these comic dramas is the work of a consumately skilled painter, unrelenting well into his eighth decade.

Gaylen Hansen
Gaylen Hansen

Author: Keith Wells

Publisher: Washington State University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 132

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Although Gaylen Hansen was raised on a Utah farm in the 1920s and has lived in rural eastern Washington for five decades, his friendly, whimsical artwork has been exhibited in cities worldwide, including New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Jakarta, Singapore, and Beijing. This new retrospective includes an engaging interview with the artist and a highly personal selection of more than twenty of his paintings--most never publicly shown--along with some old favorites. Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings is being released in conjunction with a two-part exhibit held simultaneously at Washington State University's Museum of Art in Pullman and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, before traveling to the Seattle Art Museum in October 2007 and the Salt Lake Art Center in 2008.

Art from the Swamp
Art from the Swamp

Author: Bruce Cole

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1594039976

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Few Americans are aware that Washington is the country’s largest single patron of art. Every year a group of unelected federal bureaucrats and congressmen spends millions of taxpayer dollars on monuments, sculptures, buildings, plays, and exhibitions, largely without public knowledge or involvement. Frank Gehry’s outlandish memorial to President Eisenhower, an installation that blinks quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt in Morse code at a cash-strapped Veterans Administration hospital, a giant $750,00 wood sculpture whose fumes sickened workers in an FBI building in Miami, FL, and funding for research on the visual cultures of tea consumption in Imperial India are just a few of the hundreds of unwanted and wasteful projects supported annually by the General Services Administration, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and their enablers on Capitol Hill. In this book, Bruce Cole, the longest serving chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, exposes the programs and policies responsible for this glut of unsupervised bureaucratic pork and offers suggestions for their reform or elimination.