William G. Hanson,  ASMA

 William G. Hanson, ASMA


William G. Hanson is a graduate of American University with a B.F.A. in Studio Painting.   As an illustrator, he has worked for magazines and major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster, Signet, Dell, and E.P.Dutton).  His portraits include a Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, corporate and banking executives, and a series of portraits of past winners of the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia for Golf Digest.  Many of his commissioned portraits can be found in international collections.
    In current years, his love of the sea and its lore has influenced his choice of subject matter.  Hanson is a signature artist member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA), one of the founding members of the New England Plein-Air Painters,  an artist member of the North Shore Arts Association, and an elected artist and APEC board member of the Lyme Art Association.  He has been a selected annual participant of the International Marine Art Exhibition since 1990, a selected annual participant of the Modern Marine Masters Exhibition at Mystic Seaport since 1995, and an invited artist of the Plein Air Painters at Mystic Seaport since its inception.  Although he enjoys working in pastels and water color, his exhibited works are in oil.   Current paintings can be found in prominent  galleries throughout New England and along the Eastern coast.   When not in his studio, Hanson can be found painting and sketching the coastline, countryside and people of the Atlantic shore and the small towns and back roads of New England.