Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 03:41:30 :
Marin Independent Journal
Wednesday, June 26, 1985
RICHARD E. O’HANLON
A memorial service for Richard E. O’Hanlon of Mill Valley, a leading figure in the Bay Area art world for almost 50 years, will be held scheduled next month. (sic)
Mr. O’Hanlon, a professor emeritus of sculpture at the University of California and a well-known sculptor, died Tuesday morning following a heart attack at his home. He was 78.
He was born in Long Beach and came to the Bay Area with his family in the early 1920s.
He studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He met his wife, Ann, also an artist, while they both were attending art school.
The O’Hanlons have lived in Mill Valley since 1936.
After teaching ceramic arts and sculpture at the College of Arts and Crafts, Mr. O’Hanlon became a member of the University of California, Berkeley in 1948 He retired in 1974.
His sculpture has been exhibited throughout the United States and the Bay Area.
He had one-man shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Willard Gallery in New York City and the Santa Barbara Museum Art. (sic)
In 1955, Mr. O’Hanlon was invited to participate in the International Biennale in Brazil, and his work was included in the exhibit of this show which toured the United States in 1956-57.
“Sunstones,” O’Hanlon’s 50-ton, 20-foot-high granite sculpture designed (sic) and to reflect various celestial events was installed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley in 1979.
He was commissioned to do an 8-by-12-foot granite sculpture that now stands in front of the Mill Valley Public Library. Mr. O’Hanlon also has monumental works in granite and steel at the Walnut Creek Art Center.
His work is included in permanent collections of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and private collections.
He and his wife founded Sight and Insight Inc., a non-profit organization established in 1969 to encourage creative perception.
The O’Hanlon property in Mill Valley has been developed as a center for visual arts in conjunction with Sight and Insight’s perception gallery at Fort Mason, in San Francisco.
The O’Hanlons have traveled extensively for research and photography projects.
In addition to his wife, Mr. O’Hanlon is survived by a sister, Dorothy Saxton of Walnut Creek; and a brother, Robert O’Hanlon of Pasadena.
A private funeral will be held this week.
The family prefers memorial contributions to Sight and Insight, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, 94941.
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