Untitled
Eva Hesse, American (born Germany), 1936 - 1970
1964
Opaque and transparent watercolor, pen and black ink, felt-tip marker, and crayon on wove paper
Sheet: 22 7/16 × 28 7/16 in. (57 × 72.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from the Lathrop Fellows
W.2004.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in black ink, lower center: Eva Hesse 1964
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Winter 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Jennifer Caine, Spring 2013
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012
SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013
SART 15, Drawing I, Kate Emlen, Fall 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014
ARTH 16.2, Women in Art, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2014
SART 76, Senior Seminar I, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015
SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015
WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019
ARTH 89.05, Art History: Theory and Method, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2019
SART 76, Senior Seminar, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2020
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Spring 2024
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
"Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 22-December 6, 2015.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 28-June 27, 2004.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 25, 42, 212, 274, ill. p. 25, fig. 22, 213, back cover, no. 75.
Annual Report 2005-6, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p.41.
Amy Eshoo, Ed., with contributions by Derrick R. Cartwright, James Cuno, Elizabeth Finch, Josef Helfenstein, Glenn D. Lowry, David Mickenberg, Ann Philbin, Earl A. Powell III, Jock Reynolds, and Townsend Wolfe, 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, 200 pp., ill. p. 131.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.172, no.146.
Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art, with contributions by Katherine Hart, Michael R. Taylor, John O'Reilly and James Tellin, Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, p. 20, Fig. 1.6.
Provenance
The artist; given to her friend, Irwin Fleminger (1932-2008), New York, New York, late 1965-early 1966; consigned to Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, New York, 2003-2004; sold to present collection, January 26, 2004.
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