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".