Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna &amp; Flora devotes two essays to the dutiful renderings of flowers and animals for which Van Hoesen is best known. Using curator, artist, and printer interviews alongside quotations from Van Hoesen's unpublished 1981 journal, Bob Hicks examines her work within the context of the contemporary art world and the history of figurative art. More than ninety prints and drawings illustrate Van Hoesen's mastery of color and line in her effort to intimately and meticulously document the tangible world as she saw it.

Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna & Flora

Arts & Photography

Van Hoesen, Beth

Hicks, Bob

History & Criticism

Pomegranate Communications

In paintings, drawings, and prints, Beth Van Hoesen is an artist who celebrates the idiosyncrasies of life with a fascination for detail that permeates all her subjects - ranging from people and dolls, flora and fauna, to cakes and chocolates. Her pictures describe specific moments with the keenest eye, revealing in their accuracy essential truths about the lives and objects she portrays. Van Hoesen's formidable control of line and color are clear in images as impressive for their precision and clarity as for their grace and charm. Her works are testaments to the power and importance of observation, and the vitality of realism in contemporary art. With seventy-two full-color images and a perceptive essay by Richard Lorenz, Beth Van Hoesen: Works on Paper vividly illustrates the achievement of this compelling artist.

Beth Van Hoesen: Works on Paper

Lorenz, Richard

Individual Artists

Chronicle Books LLC.

Creatures: The Art of Seeing Animals, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors

Gathers portraits of dogs, cats, bulls, sheep, birds, frogs, a vulture, tiger, rabbit, bobcat, rat, rhino, and chinchilla

Creatures: The Art of Seeing Animals

Beth Van Hoesen: The Observant Eye is the compendium 61-page catalogue to the successful exhibition chronicling decades of Beth Van Hoesen's realistic images of animals, floral studies, figure drawings, and human portraits.With a forward written by Joseph Goldyne and Bob Hicks in 2009 and published by the Fresno Art Museum, this catalogue documents the work of one of America's finest artist.

Beth Van Hoesen: The Observant Eye

Fresno Art Museum

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