Biografie von Oskar J. W. HANSEN (1892-1962)

Birth place: Norway

Death place: Charlottesville, VA.

Profession: Sculptor, writer

Studied: Port Arthur College, TX; Evanston Acad., Illinois; Northwestern Univ., 1914-15.

Exhibited: AIC, 1928-31, 1935.

Work: Smithsonian; colossal figure, Hoover Dam, Boulder Dam, 1935

Comments: Came to the U.S. in 1910 after traveling around the world five times as a cabin boy. Toured the Arizona desert in 1938.

Sources: P&H Samuels, 206.