Beth Van Hoesen

Chow by Beth Van Hoesen, 1985, drypoint hand colored with watercolor, Honolulu Museum of Art

Beth Van Hoesen (1926–2010) was an American artist who was born in Boise, Idaho. She earned a BA from Stanford University in 1948. After graduation, she continued her studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Fontainbleau, the Académie Julian, and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1951, she enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, where she studied under David Park and Clyfford Still.^[1] In 1953, she married fellow artist Mark Adams.^[2]

She is best known for her whimsical portraits of animals,^[3] as exemplified by Chow, a hand colored drypoint from 1985 in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Cincinnati Art Museum, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Frederick R Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) are among the public collections holding works by Beth Van Hoesen.^[4]^[5] The artist's print archive was given to the Portland Art Museum.^[6]

References

Goldyne, Joseph and Bob Hicks, Beth Van Hoesen: The Observant Eye, Fresno Art Museum, 2009 ISBN 0932325939
Hicks, Bob, Beth Van Hoesen: Catalogue Raisonne of Limited-Edition Prints, Books, and Portfolios, Hudson Hills Press, 2011 ISBN 1555953441
Johnson, Robert Flynn, Beth Van Hoesen: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, 1983
Van Hoesen, Beth, Beth Van Hoesen: Works on Paper, Chronicle Books, 1996 ISBN 0811810054
Van Hoesen, Beth, Beth Van Hoesen Creatures: The Art of Seeing Animals, Yolla Bolly Press Book, San Francisco, 1987 ISBN 0877014701
Van Hoesen, Beth, Selections From the Nude Man: 12 Intaglio Prints By Beth Van Hoesen, Crown Point Press, Oakland, 1965
Van Hoesen, Beth, A Collection of Wonderful Things: Intaglio Prints by Beth Van Hoesen, Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco, 1972
Beth Van Hoesen in AskArt.com