Kristina hagman biography

Kristina Hagman is a life-long oil painter and printmaker.
KRISTINA HAGMAN is an artist who has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, People magazine, Closer magazine (UK), and more.
Kristina Hagman, painter, printmaker, designer, author, teacher, and lecturer, was born in 17 February 1958 in New York City, New York but she grew up in.

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The Dallas Decoder Interview: Kristina Hagman

Kristina Hagman

“The Eternal Party,” a biography of Larry Hagman written by his daughter Kristina Hagman, was published last month. I interviewed her recently about the book and her memories of her famous father.

Let me start by expressing my condolences on the recent death of your mom, Maj Hagman. I enjoyed learning more about her in your book. She was a pretty resourceful woman.

She was a doer. Resilient, handy, innovative. She came up with all sorts of things.

For those who haven’t read “The Eternal Party,” can you talk about why you decided to write it?

I was hoping [the book] would instigate larger communication about my father — that other people would then share their stories, and lo and behold, that is just what’s happening. I’m hearing so much. It’s making the whole picture of my father so much more complete. As I put out my stories, people are coming back to me with their stories, and I’m getting a much more rounded knowledge of who my father was.

What sorts of things are you hearing?

My father used his

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Kristina Hagman's Book About Larry Hagman

Snarky's Ghost said:
So parents are always the good guys? And we figure that out later when we "learn to appreciate" that?
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Snarky don't read too much into it. Parents, like children, have faults - we all do. It's what makes us more interesting. Larry had faults. I'm sure sure Linda Gray does alongside, Patrick, Victoria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Ken...the list can go on. If I wrote an autobiography, warts and all, most would find it a boring read and would toss it into the bin after 2 pages.

The difference between the likes of Larry Hagman and myself is he had a public career. Actors/celebrities have a public persona, a life of glitz, glamour and visiting exotic locations. But they also have a personal life, mostly hidden from view. If they or someone else then wishes to expose the underbelly of that person should we be really shocked at discovering that person had flaws?

I have not read the book. I have no intentions of reading it. Did Larry have affairs? I don&

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Kristina Hagman, painter, printmaker, designer, author, teacher, and lecturer, was born in 17 February 1958 in New York City, New York but she grew up in Los Angeles, California. Hagman attended San Francisco State University where she studied dance, psychology and science. After three years of college, she landed a summer acting job in The Sound of Music. Acting was in her blood, her grandmother was stage actress Mary Martin and her father was Larry Hagman of Dallas fame, so she briefly explored acting.

Hagman grew up painting beside her mother and grandmother. She later studied at the DeYoung Museum Art School in San Francisco, California (1977, 1978); the Art Students League, New York (1981,1982); the Graphics Workshop with Ron Pokrasso in Santa Fe (1983); the Santa Fe Institute of Art with Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira (1986,1987); the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1987-1988); the Santa Fe Institute of Art with Wayne Thiebaud (1990); and the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico (1994, 1995).

Kristina lived in Seattle for fourteen years and created the ser