Philip Hanson
American, born 1943
St. Anthony Pleasure Park
INV-1958
Philip Hanson
American, born 1943July 1968
St. Anthony Pleasure Park
Philip Hanson American, born 1943 →etchingpaper
Date
July 1968
Medium
Etching in black, hand-colored in watercolor, on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 25 × 20 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 34.5 × 28.5 cm (13 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Through prior bequest of Vera Berdich
Hanson’s etching depicts a landscape of fantastic, monstrous structures and plant-like forms. Created when Hanson was fully engaged with printmaking, this work was likely inspired by Riverview, a now-defunct Chicago amusement park. In the image Hanson riffed on the graphic images often used by amusement parks to entice customers while referencing the story of Saint Anthony, an Egyptian monk who was said to have been visited by demons in the desert. The artist, who received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1968, carefully hand-colored this etching, providing a luminous dimension.
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