Steve Hanks began his art career at the age of sixteen when his parents moved the family from Southern California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In California, he had been very active in sports,... Read full biography
Steve Hanks began his art career at the age of sixteen when his parents moved the family from Southern California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In California, he had been very active in sports, especially tennis. But devastated by the move to California, Hanks spent much of a year in his room... Read full biography
Steve Hanks began his art career at the age of sixteen when his parents moved the family from Southern California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In California, he had been very active in sports, especially tennis. But devastated by the move to California, Hanks spent much of a year in his room listening to music and drawing posters for music groups. His posters of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Doors sold around the country. After high school graduation, Hanks "jumped in the car and went back to... Read full biography
Steve Hanks began his art career at the age of sixteen when his parents moved the family from Southern California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In California, he had been very active in sports, especially tennis. But devastated by the move to California, Hanks spent much of a year in his room listening to music and drawing posters for music groups. His posters of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Doors sold around the country. After high school graduation, Hanks "jumped in the car and went back to California." (Stavig). He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and then studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. At CCAC, he took life drawing, and from that time, the... Read full biography
Steve Hanks began his art career at the age of sixteen when his parents moved the family from Southern California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In California, he had been very active in sports, especially tennis. But devastated by the move to California, Hanks spent much of a year in his room listening to music and drawing posters for music groups. His posters of the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Doors sold around the country. After high school graduation, Hanks "jumped in the car and went back to California." (Stavig). He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and then studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. At CCAC, he took life drawing, and from that time, the focus of his painting was the female figure. After earning his degree, he returned to Albuque... Read full biography
Steve Hanks - Artist Info
About Steve Hanks: Books
Books & Publications (15)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Moving On: The Art of Steve Hanks
2007
Hanks, Steve
176 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Prix de West 30th Anniversary 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Schroeder, Charles (Intro)
204 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
Artists of America (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Bacon, Todd, Message for Denver Rotary Club
108 pages (color)
Artists of America Seventeenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Denver Rotary Club
92 pages (color)
Prix de West Invitational 1997 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
194 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Prix de West Invitational 1996 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
192 pages (color)
Denver Rotary Club's Artists of America: Fourteenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Denver Rotary Club
88 pages (color)
The Art of Steve Hanks: Poised Between Heartbeats
1994
Olson, Keith
0 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
National Academy of Western Art Twentieth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)