About James Lee Hansen

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    JAMES LEE HANSEN by Steven L. Grafe

    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. Working primarily in bronze, Hansen’s sculptural series relate to his ideas about human origins, existence, identity, and reality.

    Hansen was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1925. In 1936, at the height of the
    Great Depression, he moved south to Vancouver with his parents and brother. He spent most of his teenage years raising racing pigeons and hunting, fishing, and horseback riding in the surrounding countryside. World War II broke out while he was attending Vancouve...

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