Description: Hannock's paintings are contemporary postmodern expressions of the great American landscape artists of the nineteenth century. His astute attention to light and atmosphere is influenced by the Hudson River School and the Luminist Movement, and his paintings are contemporary postmodern expressions of these traditional and romantic genres.
Brief description:
Stephen Hannock attended Bowdoin College before studying at Smith and Hampshire Colleges. While at Smith, he was apprenticed to renowned artist Leonard Baskin, and he was also guided by groundbreaking art historians Betty and Agnes Mongan. In 1999, Hannock's paintings for the movie What Dreams May Come won the Academy Award for "Special Visual Effects."
Hannock's work can be found in public collections throughout the United States, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, along with numerous other public and private collections.