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John Hanlen

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John Garrett Hanlen (1922 - 2003) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Kansas.  John Hanlen is known for Collage, war artist, regional scene painting, teaching.

Artist John Garrett Hanlen was born in Winfield, Kansas in 1922, and was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* in Philadelphia, and The Barnes Foundation*.

Enlisting in the United States Army in 1942, he served during World War II in the Pacific Theatre making drawings and illustrations for armed forces publications. After the war he studied mural painting techniques with American mural painter George Harding, receiving The Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship for Mural Painting in 1951.  He then collaborated with Harding for two years (1954-56) in Mill Grove, Pennsylvania on The John James Audubon Shrine Murals, with each depicting a different geographical area where Audubon painted.

Throughout his lifetime Hanlen worked in many styles and mediums including realism*, illustration, modernism*, and expressionism*.  But he is most commonly considered an abstract expressionist* collage* artist whose style was similar to that of the "New York School"   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2551 characters.]  Artist bio

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Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Painting, Fine Art
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
Art Teacher
  • George Harding
Art School
  • Barnes Foundation School/University of Arts, Student
  • Moore College of Art and Design for Women, Teacher
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Cresson Traveling Scholarship
  • Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship for Painters
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Fellowship
  • Prix de Rome Prize
  • Thouron Prize
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography

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