MEL HANSON
Painter, Assemblage, 1938-1962

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was associated with a group of bohemian painters, including William Snyder, Jack Farlous (Farley), and Terry St. John, who lived and worked in an old Stockton firehouse and exhibited together at the Green Gallery in San Francisco in 1960 as the Firehaus Group. Hanson, like the others, worked in a broad, Bay Area Figurative style touched with elements of funky art.
- Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980

Education
Received B.A. from University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1960.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1965
Green Gallery, San Francisco, 1960-1961 and 1964; Retrospective, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1963.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1945-1965
Fyrehaus Group Exhibition, Spatsa Gallery, 1960; Fyrehaus Group Exhibition, Green Gallery, San Francisco, 1961.