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John Hancock

Even before studying art in college and grad school, John Hancock began urban sketching when he regularly spent weekend afternoons among the brownstone buildings of downtown Wichita. After college, he worked with an architectural historian and archeologist to help create a book chronicling the material culture of a once wealthy Southern town. For the book, he created drawings of whole buildings and architectural details of the historic architecture.

As an art and design professor, and now as an independent artist, he has continued his practice of sketching in widely varied locations. And while his studio art has followed an arc that lead me from an early devotion to mid-western regionalism and Edward Hopper through the modernism of Cezanne, Kandinsky, and Gorky … in his sketching, he is a playful and idiosyncratic classicist.

Besides helping administer his local Charlottesville USk chapter, he recently worked as an independent curator with a regional art center on an exhibition of current urban sketching.

WS11 – Ink & Watercolor on Toned Paper

Find John online at:
Facebook: John A. Hancock
Instagram: @Hancock_John_A 
Web: Johnahancock.com