Lot 259, Auction 4/3/2026: Marc Hanson Painting – “Descending Mist”

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Marc R. Hanson (American, b. 1955). “Descending Mist / NW Crane Hollow DR” oil on canvas, n.d. Signed at lower left and titled on verso. A veil of mist drifts low across an open Colorado landscape, turning distance into suggestion and grounding the scene in quiet transition. “Descending Mist / NW Crane Hollow DR” captures that fleeting moment when atmosphere overtakes geography, when land, sky, and weather briefly negotiate their boundaries. Hanson composes the scene horizontally, allowing the land to stretch and breathe beneath a wide, pale sky. Fields are rendered in muted golds, soft greens, and cool blues, their surfaces broken by shallow pools of water that mirror the light above. Dark tree lines anchor the horizon, emerging gently through the haze, while the descending mist softens edges and compresses space. Nothing is sharply declared. Everything is in the act of becoming. Size of painting: 23.5″ W x 11.5″ H (59.7 cm x 29.2 cm); of frame: 29.5″ W x 17.75″ H (74.9 cm x 45.1 cm)

The work reflects Hanson’s deep engagement with the western landscape during his time in Colorado. This is not a postcard view but a familiar road seen under specific conditions, likely Crane Hollow Road in Boulder County, where weather reshapes perception minute by minute. His naturalist sensibility is evident in the way structure yields to atmosphere, allowing the principles of value, color temperature, and edge to do the storytelling.

Signed lower left, “Descending Mist / NW Crane Hollow DR” is a study in restraint and observation. Hanson does not dramatize the scene. He listens to it. The result is a landscape that feels quietly expansive, attentive to the subtle poetry of place, and deeply attuned to the joy of simply witnessing the world as it shifts and settles.

About the artist: “Having grown up in a military family, Marc’s youth was spent on the move. He was born in Oxnard, California and spent some of his early school years there. But his geographical resume soon included Alaska, Florida, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Norway. After his father’s retirement from the Air Force, Marc’s family settled in the small northern California community of Loomis. Marc began college as a biology major, but soon applied to and was accepted into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, majoring in illustration. After Art Center and a brief stint as a staff illustrator in Sacramento, California, Marc moved to Minnesota where he lived for 33 years while raising a family and pursuing his art. Marc has recently lived in Colorado and Mississippi before settling down on Tybee Island, GA.

“I have pursued a career as a painter for many years now. Along the way my methods, materials and focus have evolved. A naturalist at heart, the landscape is the perfect vehicle for expressing the joy I have for the world that surrounds me. My real interest and challenge as a painter is how to best manipulate the core principles of painting into effective visual statements. I’m most successful when I’m able to communicate that joy to the viewers of my paintings.”

Marc teaches landscape painting workshops in many locations nationally. “I love working with other painters in their pursuit to better their craft. My goal is not to have them assimilate my style and technique, but to teach them how to more closely examine the subject and apply the principles that representational painters must follow to become effective visual communicators.”

He has shown his work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since the early 1980’s. He is a Master Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.)

He is a Master Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.M.), having won an Award of Excellence at the O.P.A. National Exhibit in 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2011 Marc’s painting ‘Right or Left’ was awarded Bronze Medal for Painting at the OPA National Exhibition in Coeur d’Alene, ID. Among his many awards, he’s placed four times in The Pastel Journal’s ‘Pastel 100’ competition.” (source: artist’s website)

Condition: Painting is in excellent overall condition. Signed at lower left and titled on verso. Mounted in custom frame; some minor splitting to corners and chip to lower left corner, but none of which affects painting. Suspension wire on verso for display.

Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; Private collection of a Private Colorado Family

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