1970 – James Lee Hansen, Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1970 – One Man Show, University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, OR.
1971 – Retrospective, “Bronzes by James Lee Hansen 1965-1971”, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
1971 – Artists of Oregon: Paintings and Sculptures, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
1972 – One Man Show, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA.
1973 – One Man Show, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1974 – Salem Civic Fountain Competition, award for winning proposal, Salem, OR.
1975 – Smithsonian Sesquicentennial, Evergreen College, Olympia, WA.
1975 – Northwest Sculpture, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
1975 – Northwest Sculpture Exhibition, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
1975 – Northwest Sculptors, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1975 – Art of the Pacific Northwest: From the 1930s to the Present, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
1975 – Art of the Pacific Northwest: From the 1930s to the Present, Smithsonian Institute, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC.
1976 – Bronzes by James Lee Hansen, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1976 – Mayor’s Invitational Art Show 1976, Salem Civic Center, Salem, OR.
1977 – Spokane Sculpture Invitational, Spokane Opera Housekeep Spokane, WA.
1977 – Bronzes by James Lee Hansen, Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR. Fountain Gallery fire, Portland, OR on eve of his exhibition, all bronze survived, but needed extensive restoration.
1977 – Artists of Oregon 1977, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
1977 – Bronzes by James Lee Hansen, Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR.
1977 – Vancouver Burnt Bridge studios and home taken by freeway condemnation, JLH bought back and raised old studio and home and salvaged materials for new studio. Rebuilt studios in Battle Ground, WA.
1978 – Mother, Mary Elizabeth Gruidle Hansen, dies July 4th.