Harold E. Hansen

Flight of the Wisconsin, 1986

14.5 × 14.125 ″ Framed: 20.875 × 21.625 × 1 ″ Watercolor on gesso-coated

Fields with lines of trees fill the bottom half of the composition. There are barns and house scattered scarcely in the fields in the middle ground . A wire fence is seen with foliage on the bottom edge of the composition. The top half of the composition is a blue sky scattered lightly with white clouds. There is a large hot air balloon placed in the upper right of the painting. The hot air balloon is red with "WISCONSIN" written on it and decorated with white flags. Figures are seen in the basket of the hot air balloon. This artwork is tripled matted with the bottom and top both white and the middle in red. It is framed with a dark brown wooden frame and covered in glass. A gold metal plaque is place in the bottom middle: " AGIFT TO THE FUTURE" / 'The Artwork of Ozaukee Bank' / Cedarburg Art Museum."

 

Credit Line:

Collection of Cedarburg Art Museum, The Artwork of Ozaukee Bank

Inventory ID:

2012.17