Curator of Accidents

Stephen Hannock says that when he paints landscapes he's not painting mountains, water, and trees so much as he's painting light itself.
 
Hannock's most recent work, the large-format landscape (80" x 128") Mt. Blanca with Ute Creek at Dawn, is the latest addition to the Denver Art Museum's Western American art collection. For the past twenty years, the museum's Contemporary Realism Group has helped the museum to collect contemporary Colorado landscapes. "The landscape of the west is still a viable subject—as relevant now as it was in the 19th century," says Thomas Brent Smith, Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum.

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