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Hauk Fine Arts

Vogue.com wrote of the gallery: ``Steve and Nancy Hauk’s Hauk Fine Arts is a charming, multi-level gallery that is strong in early California painters as well as contemporary stars.''

Featuring the work of early artists such as Armin Hansen, August Gay, E. Charlton Fortune, Kate Carew, Will Sparks, William Ritschel, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Maynard Dixon, Judth Deim and others, hanging with contemporary artists such as –

– Belle Yang, internationally important author-artist of the Harcourt-Brace books Baba, Odyssey of a Manchurian, and the graphic novel Forget Sorrow, as well as five children’s books including My Name Is Hannah.

– Bill Keland paints expressive oils and oil pastels of his birth state of Wisconsin as well as scenes from his current California home, Corral de Tierra, which was the setting of John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven.

– Joao de Brito, colorst and landscapist, featred in the book Ashes to Life: A Portuguese American Story in Art

– Warren Chang, his fieldworker oils inspired in part by Steinbeck, now in a solo show at the Monterey Museum of Art with another next year at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.

– Caroline Kline, landscapist as well as figurative artist, a specialty being Monterey Bay, day and night.

– Joseph Yang, classic Chinese watercolors, memories of his youth.

– Gene Elmore, small landscapes, figuratives and still lifes finished with exquisite glazings.

And others.

Gallery co-owner Nancy Hauk is an art history major (Connecticut College) and a fine artist specializing in watercolor.

Co-owner Steve Hauk wrote the script for the award-winning documentary Roots of California Photography: The Monterey Legacy, a documentary narrated by the late Jack Lemmon, as well asTime Captured in Paintings: The Monterey Legacy, also narrated by Mr. Lemmon and the winner of two CINE Golden Eagle awards.

He co-curated the inaugural exhibition of the National Steinbeck Center, This Side of Eden—Images of Steinbeck's California, and writes for the Steinbeck Review and steinbecknow.com. He is working on a book of short stories about John Steinbeck with the collective title of Almost True Stories from a Writer’s Life.

His play on early California impressionist E. Charlton Fortune, Fortune’s Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others), has been given staged readings in California and will be the partial basis for a film on the artist by Mac and Ava Motion Pictures. The play has been published on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. website (tfaoi.com), as has another play by Hauk, The Floating Hat, on the relationship of Impressionist Granville Redmond and Charlie Chaplin.

His plays A Mild Concusssion, based loosely on the computer age genius Gary Kildall, and Reflections of an American Mossad, have both been published on steinbecknow.com.

Location
206 Fountain Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
USA
T: +1-831-373-6007
F: +1-831-373-6076

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