Mea culpa. I confess. For years, I didn’t “get” Duane Hanson. Oh, sure, I got that he was probably both the best and the best-known American realist sculptor of the human figure, certainly the best at ...

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. The Mary Davis Wallace papers relating to ...

Hyperrealism is a form of art that uses exacting, realistic detail to make a comment. In the case of sculpture by Duane Hanson, it’s used to create a nebulous narrative, a quiet context, and an ...

The arrangement of works in the main hallway of the University of Miami’s Lowe Museum is quite disorientating. There’s an impressive Roy Lichtenstein from 1969 and Duane Hanson’s uncanny Dolphins ...

Duane Hanson papers, 1935-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal ...