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Scott Hewitt – September 17, 2020 The Maryhill Museum of Art will reopen to the public, with limited days and timed admissions, on Friday. The museum houses an eclectic mix of European and American paintings, indigenous American artworks and artifacts, objects donated by the Queen of Romania, sculptures by Rodin, Orthodox icons and fashion mannequins…

In 1956, James Lee Hansen began making molds and recording many of the petroglyphic prehistoric carvings in the are of the Columbia River Gorge that was inundated by the Dalles and John Day Dams constructed by the Army Corp of Engineers in the 1950’s. Many of these recorded images were gifted to “The Oregon Museum of Science and History” in Portland, Oregon. This project was completed with Dr. Carl Heller and James Haseltine.

In 1962, Hansen was hired to help create a unique new building for the Clark County Title Co. at 110 East 11th St. in downtown Vancouver.

DAYBREAK — James Lee Hansen is finishing things up. He’s not starting any new sculptures these days, he said, but he is striving to complete decades-old pieces that were left undone.

During a career that has spanned more than sixty years, Battle Ground, Washington, artist James Lee Hansen has produced more than seven hundred sculptures ranging in size from small studies to monumental works of public art.

Quote from the exhibit:  “One cannot escape seeing Hansen’s three-legged sculptures as figures, or two figures confronting each other. But this impression is based on only the slightest relevance to anatomy, and were we to be literal minded some of the figures are closer to the animal kingdom. What they all share is animation: the…