The Northern Arizona University Art Museum will host “Selected Prints and Drawings by Beth Van Hoesen: A Gift from the Adams Trust” from May 13 to June 13.
The exhibit features 55 prints and drawings by California printmaker Beth Van Hoesen, whose career began in the 1940s and lasted into the 21st century.
The collection reflects the maturation of Van Hoesen’s approach, in which she sought to imbue her subjects with a life-force, even a personality.
Museum director George Speer said the works in this exhibition show the artist steadily simplifying her compositions, focusing her observations to the point at which they become insights into her models—be they friends and neighbors in San Francisco, owls, flamingoes, flowers or skulls.
“The Van Hoesen exhibition provides artists and aficionados of printmaking with superlative examples of discipline, craft and imagination sustained throughout a career that was decades in the making,” Speer said.
The Museum is located in Old Main (bldg. 10). Admission is free and open to the public with a suggested $2 per person donation. Call (928) 523-3471 for summer hours. Before 4:30 p.m., parking is available in the designated stalls in P4 and anywhere in P3 with a free guest parking pass available from the museum staff. Evening or day parking permits can be obtained online at nau.edu/parking. For directions on campus, please visit nau.edu/maps.