Farmer Charcoal Portrait Drawing by Ejnar Hansen

Description

Top-notch work by the great Danish-born California artist, Ejnar Hansen.

12 x 14. Matted.

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark on Jan. … more Top-notch work by the great Danish-born California artist, Ejnar Hansen.

12 x 14. Matted.

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark on Jan. 9, 1884, Hansen attended the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. He arrived in the U.S. in 1914 and lived in Michigan and Wheaton, IL before settling in Pasadena in 1924. He taught at Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes, Pomona College, John Muir College, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts. Hansen died in Pasadena on Sept. 26, 1965.

His oeuvre includes still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and figure compositions in oil and watercolor. His works won many awards in southern California exhibitions from 1927.

Member: LA AA; Pasadena Society of Artists.

Exh: AIC, 1918, 1945, 1946; LACMA, 1927 (1st prize), 1941, 1954; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1928; Calif. State less