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James Lee Hansen

James Lee Hansen (Born 1925) is active/lives in Washington.  James Hansen is known for Large scale monumental public sculpture.

JAMES LEE HANSEN by Steven L. Grafe

During a career that has spanned more than sixty years, Battle Ground, Washington, artist James Lee Hansen has produced more than seven hundred sculptures ranging in size from small studies to monumental works of public art. Working primarily in bronze, Hansen’s sculptural series relate to his ideas about human origins, existence, identity, and reality.

Hansen was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1925. In 1936, at the height of the
Great Depression, he moved south to Vancouver with his parents and brother. He spent most of his teenage years raising racing pigeons and hunting, fishing, and horseback riding in the surrounding countryside. World War II broke out while he was attending Vancouver High School, and right after graduation in 1943 he went to the Marine recruiting office in downtown Portland. Finding it closed for lunch, the impatient young man went next door and enlisted in the Navy.

For three years, Hansen was a sailor   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8672 characters.]  Artist bio

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