Portfolio - Original Oil Paintings by Modern Impressionist Erin Hanson

The red desert of Arizona's Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is filled with varying hues of vermillion, blush, and umber. Mittens Butte and Merrick Butte tower over the sandy vista, attracting tourists, artists, and filmmakers alike. Painters like Ralph Brownell McGrew, Maynard Dixon, and Erin Hanson have interpreted these ever-changing sands and spires in their distinct styles. Hanson uses hand-mixed hues to showcase the rock variegations and shifting clouds in her impressionist paintings. Each Hanson landscape painting also exhibits the bristlecone pines, yucca, tumbleweed, juniper, and other flora that thrive in Monument Valley.