Boyd Everett Hanna, painter, printmaker and illustrator, was born on July 15, 1907, to Grace Belle and Roscoe Elton Hanna in Irwin, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh between 1925- and 1928 and then at Carnegie-Mellon University between 1928 and 1930.

After serving in the U.S. military during World War II, Hanna worked as a graphic designer for the Swindell-Dressler Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for twenty years, retiring in 1970.

Despite having a career, he was a member of and exhibited with the Society of American  Graphic Artists, Colorprint USA, California Society of Etchers, Print Club of Albany and the National Association of Industrial Artists. His work was included in Artists for Victory, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1942; the Brooklyn Museum Annual in 1947; and the National Academy of Design 123^rd annual in 1949.

As a designer, he illustrated “Longfellow’s Poems” for the Limited Editions Club in 1944; “The Compleat Angler” by Izaak Walton in 1947; “Story of Nativity” in 1049; “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman in 1951; and “Sayings of Buddha” in 1957.

Hanna’s work is represented in the collections of the Boston Public Library, Massachusetts; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library, New York; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Boyd Everett Hanna lived in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania for about forty years. He moved to Tucson, Arizona after retiring in 1970 and died there on June 27, 1987.