Michael J. Hanlon - Sarasota Oil Painter
Date and place of birth: August 21st 1944, Dubuque, Iowa
Art Education:
1971-73 Tampa, FL
- Studied with the late Christopher Clark
- Portraits - Anatomy - Art History
1974 Provincetown, MA
- The Cape School of Art
- Henry Hensche - Director
1975-1976 Tampa, FL
- Hillsborough Comm. College
- Drawing - Painting - Lithography
- Awarded Meritorious Scholarship
- Steve Holm - Instructor
Member of Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County
Recent Exhibit:
- Gallery 120 June & July 2017
- "Literary Heroes" Larger Than Life Oil Portraits
- Largo Public Library, Largo, FL
- Kotler Art Gallery March & April 2016
- "Literary Heroes" Larger Than Life Oil Portraits
- John F. Germany Public Library, Tampa, FL
- Kotler Art Gallery Jan & Feb 2015
- "Literary Heroes" Larger Than Life Oil Portraits
- John F. Germany Public Library, Tampa, FL
- Charles J. Fendig Library April-June 2014
- "Literary Heroes" Larger Than Life Oil Portraits
- Show extended one month because of positive response.
Artists Statement:
"I have 40 years experience as a representational oil painter and it's still fascinating the way light reveals and defines form. The portraits I'm doing of writers that I admire, is a labor of love".