Painted idol
Dana Hamm
1 painting in the series ▪ publishes as @danahammofficial
Photograph published by @danahammofficial on Instagram ▪ source
See the workOne of the first canvases in this series, and there was no idea behind it. I am not going to pretend there was.
Who is Dana Hamm?
Dana Hamm is an American fitness and glamour model. She came up through fitness and bodybuilding magazines: in September 2002 Muscular Development ran a pictorial of her with a poster, and in May 2003 she was on its cover. She also wrote a column for the fitness magazine Olympian's Fitness.
By 2007 she named FHM, Maxim, Stuff, Playboy, Esquire and GQ among the magazines she had appeared in, and she worked as a spokesmodel for the motorcycle builder SinFuel Choppers. That year she published The Dana Hamm Look Book, a photo book with work by photographer Scott Schisler, and Citynet Magazine featured her as its Miss November.
This summary is put together from publicly available sources and has not been checked with her. If something here is wrong or she would rather it were not here, write to the studio and it is corrected or removed.
Where you know her from
- 2002Pictorial and poster (September issue)Muscular Development
- 2003Cover (May issue)Muscular Development
- 2007The Dana Hamm Look Book, photographed by Scott SchislerOwn photo book
- 2007Miss November interviewCitynet Magazine
Painting Dana Hamm in the studio
At that point I was still working out what I actually wanted to look at for weeks on end. Not what would sell, not what it meant. Just which images kept me at an easel and which ones let go after two days. This one held, and everything since has come out of that question. So this is where Painted Idols begins, even though it looks like it belongs somewhere in the middle of the series.
Days at a time over several weeks. It stopped when I was finished with it.
Dana Hamm paintings: what exists
Oil on stretched canvas, 120 x 80 cm, signed, one of one. Painted from a photograph she published herself, and the painting credits it. There is no print of it. The canvas was painted by hand from that photograph; what it became is the painter's doing, not hers.
What is still available, and at what price, is on the cards below.
“Something stops me. Then I have to deal with it.”
I wrote to Dana Hamm about this painting, as I do to every woman in the series. Not every message gets an answer. If you are Dana Hamm, or you made the photograph, and you would rather it were not shown here: write to the studio and it comes down. No explanation needed.
Works featuring Dana Hamm
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Black BikiniDana
120 × 80 cm
€1.150
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Questions about the paintings of Dana Hamm
Is a painting of Dana Hamm for sale?
Yes. The one original painting of Dana Hamm, Dana (Black Bikini), is still available. It is one of one and will not be painted again.
How big are the paintings of Dana Hamm?
Dana (Black Bikini) is 120 × 80 cm.
Are there prints of the paintings of Dana Hamm?
No. The paintings of Dana Hamm exist only as originals.
Did Dana Hamm pose for these paintings?
No. They are painted from photographs that Dana Hamm published herself. She did not sit for them, and what the canvases became is the painter’s doing, not hers.
