'White Peony and Korean Pot', oil on canvas painting by Raymond Han, 2006, private collection

'Flora', oil on linen painting by Raymond Han, 2003, private collection

Raymond Han is an American painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1931. After study with Willson Young Stamper (1912-1988) at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Han moved to New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York with Frank Mason (born 1921) and Robert Beverly Hale (1901-1985). Han resides in upstate New York.

He is best known for his still lifes in the photorealism genre. They are painted in cool colors with a great deal of white. Recently, he has begun incorporating nudes into some of his canvases. The Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, New York) and the Picker Art Gallery (Colgate College, Hamilton, New York) are among the public collections holding work by Raymond Han.

[edit] References

• Barzun, Jacques, Raymond Han: Still Lifes, San Francisco, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1997.
• Holman, Thomas S., Raymond Han New Paintings, New York, Forum Gallery, 1995.
• O'Hearn, John, Raymond Han: Dreams, Myth and Perception, New York, Forum Gallery, 2001.