Roger Hane
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Hane paints a dreamy fusion of earthy and celestial bodies with circling birds around a central vertical axis.
Created on assignment for De Beers' highly published A Diamond is Forever" campaign.
"A
love by the stars was important. Until the right man of the wrong sign
put his star on my finger. And I entered his house with my love.
The
artist created the painting to be the night ... so it appears a little
dark in natural light. Best viewed with a top and key light to bring out
the colors. For example if you bring the painting outside on a bright
day.. the colors will pop. If you view inside of a dark hallway.. it
will look sombre with less detail. Again, it's a nocturne.
Hane painted the covers of the Collier-Macmillan editions of C.S.
Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia books, as well as such Simon & Schuster
publications as Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and A
Separate Reality.
In 1963, Hane was hired to do a full-page
illustration for Esquire magazine; he moved to New York in 1965. He
married Elaine Miller in 1964. Among his many magazine clients were
Ladies Home Journal, Life, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, New
York magazine, Redbook, The Lamp, Look, Vista, the Saturday Review,
Travel and Leisure, Look, Sylvania, Ramparts, the National Lampoon, and
Playboy.
Hane also contributed work to such advertising clients as Formica,
Sylvania Bulbs, De Beers Diamonds, BMI, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Inc.;
and he designed a number of record album covers for RCA, Columbia
Records, and Philadelphia International Records.
Hane died in New York City at age 36 as a result of a robbery and beating in Central Park.[2]
Mr. Hane was posthumously awarded the New York Artist Guild’s Artist
of the Year Award in 1974, and his work was featured in the Society of
Illustrators’ 1977 publication