Erin Hanson has, for her landscape paintings, observed the colored cliffs of Utah and Nevada, hiked through Zion National Park and Monument Valley, and studied the diversity of the Anza-Borrego Desert and Joshua Tree National Park. The work shown here, Montana Sky (oil on canvas, 30” × 20”), is typical of her so-called Open Impressionistic technique, which involves the application of impasto brushstrokes, the paint premixed and unblended on the canvas—resulting in mosaics of texture and luminous color.
