About Us

Hauk Fine Arts was founded in 1989. We’re located on California’s Monterey Peninsula in the Victorian town of Pacific Grove, which is where John Steinbeck lived and wrote ``The Red Pony’’ and most of ``The Grapes of Wrath’’, and where such figures as marine biologist Ed Ricketts (Doc in Steinbeck’s ``Cannery Row’’), Joseph Campbell and artists Albert deRome and Frank Harmon Myers made their homes at various times. It is also where E. Charlton Fortune founded the Monterey Guild in 1928.

The gallery is at 206 Fountain Avenue near the intersection of Fountain and Lighthouse Avenues.

Steve Hauk is a former journalist and wrote the Monterey Museum of Art produced films, both narrated by Jack Lemmon, ``Time Captured in Paintings: the Monterey Legacy,’’ winner of a national documentary award, and ``The Roots of California Photography: the Monterey Legacy.’’ He co-curated the inagural art exhibition at the National Steinbeck Center, ``This Side of Eden, Images of Steinbeck’s California,’’ and has written numerous exhibition essays, including two pieces for the 2001 Carmel Art Association book ``E. Charlton Fortune.’’ He has also written an essay for the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz) exhibition on the California artist Herman Struck (1887-1954).

Nancy Hauk was an art history major at Connecticut College. She has been involved with the gallery, both behind the desk and behind the scenes, from its inception.

Piper is a 12-year old cairn terrier who welcomes visitors, looks out the windows for stray dogs and cats, and generally makes the gallery a very special place to be in.